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: 103376,253505146ffff940 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Laurent Guerby Subject: Re: The greatest feature of the language is .... Date: 2000/10/06 Message-ID: <86k8blkey3.fsf@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 678386433 References: <39DCBA28.E504523B@ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <39DE0F1A.CA9AA9F4@ix.netcom.com> X-Trace: front2m.grolier.fr 970856449 25435 195.36.173.35 (6 Oct 2000 18:20:49 GMT) Organization: Club-Internet (France) NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Oct 2000 18:20:49 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-10-06T18:20:49+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > People are inventing new languages all the time. Most recently, > Microsoft has introduced a new language call C#, pronounced > C Sharp. Because Microsoft has its money behind the success > of this language, it will probably become important. [...] Well, when Ada was created everyone was saying that it was going to be an important language _because_ it had the biggest possible backer at the time, the US DoD. The report that recommended the end of the Ada mandate brightly made the remark that after all, the biggest software consumer was no longer the DoD, and that played a lot in the perceived success of the language. The software business is highly volatile, consumers relative importance can vary quickly, and so can producer relative importance. > [...] C# will be included in the Visual Studio release 7. It is > going to be an important language. Until Visual Studio release 8 ;-). Name a Microsoft technology that Microsoft did not obsolete by a new revolutionary important product or piles of minor incompatible change within two years? -- Laurent Guerby