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From: taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski)
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
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In article <3B57676A.AB47237B@san.rr.com>, Darren New wrote:
>> If there were MSAda, you couldn't just recompile MSAda programs on
>> other Ada compiler.
> 
> Does Ada still have the advantage of being trademarked here, so you
> can't call something Ada if it's not compatible?

So they'll call it A#.
Who cares about trademarks.

>> Unices are the only family of OSes that have real standards,
>> followed by many OSes.
> 
> And of course, the fact that I can run the same executable on DOS,
> Win3.1, Win98, WinNT, and Win2000 means nothing either. Sure.

You can ?
Chances of running DOS executable on Win98
are no bigger than of running Win98 executable on Linux.