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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-12 06:48:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) Date: 12 May 2003 06:48:32 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9fa75d42.0305120548.637fff23@posting.google.com> References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305010621.55e99deb@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305011035.13133e8d@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305011727.5eae0222@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305020457.6d5d563d@posting.google.com> <1051901740.277992@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <9fa75d42.0305090657.2f819b27@posting.google.com> <1052495061.43545@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <9fa75d42.0305100917.125f118f@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.97.239.19 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1052747312 10868 127.0.0.1 (12 May 2003 13:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 12 May 2003 13:48:32 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63571 comp.object:63238 comp.lang.ada:37237 Date: 2003-05-12T13:48:32+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote in message news:... > soft-eng wrote: > > Hyman Rosen wrote in message news:<1052495061.43545@master.nyc.kbcfp.com>... > >> soft-eng wrote: > >> > That should be "in tribute to CLU". > >> > >> Well, *I* write it in tribute to Ada, regardless of whether > >> it has its origins in a different language. > > > > Oh! That's all right then -- I misread that as you not having > > any clu about the source of generics in Ada!! > > I'm starting to see that you don't have a clue about Ada. Are you disagreeing that the source of generics in Ada was CLU?