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From: Ed Falis <falis@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized
Date: 1999/12/10
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In article <82p7hu$l1q$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> wrote:
> There's an article on zdnet about Sun dropping their standardization
> efforts for Java.
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,2405787,00.html

> This seems like a good oppertunity to promote Ada as an "Open"
> alternative, that is in many cases more portable as well.

Once we have the 1001+ amazing standard API's and figure out how to get the
cool factor.  Haven't ever managed to do that last one myself.

- Ed


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