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Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
Date: 26 Apr 2003 07:49:24 -0700
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snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) wrote in message news:<20619edc.0304252116.621a4bf4@posting.google.com>...
> softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0304250448.5107afef@posting.google.com>...
> > snarflemike@yahoo.com (Mike Silva) wrote in message news:<20619edc.0304240953.221ac70f@posting.google.com>...
> > > softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0304240503.54dbc5d1@posting.google.com>...
> > > > 
> > > > If Ada projects had actually succeeded in producing good quality
> > > > software, it would have been everywhere today.
> > > 
> > > Yeah, I see your point.  Kind of like why nobody runs Windows anymore.
> > > 
> > > Mike
> > 
> > Works for me (plus several million other people.)
> > 
> > I even used Unix for years, even when it DIDN't
> > work 1/10th as reliably as today's Windows.
> > 
> > It's good to see operating systems progress to
> > the point where anybody off the streets can
> > realiably use them and the only people complaing
> > about the reliability are ones with axes to grind.
> 
> You are one funny guy!  In comedy a straight face is everything!  :-)

No, I am serious.  Many people who use computers today, simply
wouldn't have been able to, 20 years ago.  That's progress,
excpet if you have a personal reason to say "no, it's not.".

NOBODY except computer programmers complain about reliability
of Windows.  They might claim it's frustrating, but not
unreliable.

I think there used to be many complaints in this NG because Windows
crashed when somebody loaded a buggy device driver into it.
That kind of complaint HAS to come from a Computer Programmer
with an axe to grind.  Common people would NEVER complain
that Honda makes junk cars because they took out the batteries
and replaced it with experimental junk, and the car refused
to start!