From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/29 Message-ID: <7doiu3$m03$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 460428522 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dj8vi$2qi@drn.newsguy.com> <36FFAC73.F8B69D31@nospam.lmco.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x14.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 166.72.82.118 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Mar 29 19:05:45 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <36FFAC73.F8B69D31@nospam.lmco.com>, Steve Quinlan wrote: > Freeware is > great, but companies committing their projects to a > language are by and large > not going to use unsupported freeware. Yes, that's often true. Note that it is important to distinguish between freeware -- software that is available at no cost, typically with no guaranteed support, and free software -- that is freely usable by licensed users. Free software may or may not cost $$$ and may or may not come with guaranteed support, but the important issue is what can be done with it, not what it costs. People may find it interesting to visit www.opensource.org > I think what you are doing is good, but to trumpet it as > an "equalizer" between > Ada and Java in terms of library funtionality is a bit > much. Indeed, but then on the other hand, there are actually lots of available libraries and bindings for Ada, if you look around you will find equivalents for most of the Java libraries already existing and already in use. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own