From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: Fri, 25 Jun 93 6:03:46 MDT From: Colin James 0621 Subject: Microsoft targets missile at Ada9X Message-ID: <9306250603.aa15490@dsc.blm.gov> List-Id: Gregory Aharonian posts a message regarding this subject, but I could not find anything about Microsoft in the message. Re running a reuse center at one's own expense, I have done just that on a private BBS I run as an avocation (because it has nothing to do with my vocation which ignores Ada) and have purchased Ada source code libraries at my own expense. I do this without looking for kudos and indeed have been harassed by the lead engineer of a local (big) contractor which uses Ada. But I keep on going as the everready bunny and without moaning because I for one am certain that Ada83/9X is destined to endure and conquer the fad languages/methodologies in time. My plan is to be a gold collar worker, as Paul Strassmann puts it, in the year 2000. We shall have to see, but until then I hope to do my job well as a C and Oracle programmer with the full knowledge that those non-disciplines can produce character by teaching me what not to do with Ada. The only victim in the Ada vs others language wars is the end user who is forced to use non-zero-defect code, such as in Windows NT beta.