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,e4b2dce209393666 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Michael P. Card" Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality Date: 1999/12/01 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555604797 X-Abuse-Info2: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Report: Report abuse to abuse@newsfeeds.com Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <8247n5$kvo@drn.newsguy.com> X-Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip107.syracuse3.ny.pub-ip.psi.net Posted-And-Mailed: yes Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers, INCLUDING the body X-Trace: 1 Dec 1999 20:50:20 -0600, 209.157.167.51 Organization: Newsfeeds.com http://www.newsfeeds.com 73,000+ UNCENSORED Newsgroups. User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) Mime-version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-01T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: ld- My appeal was intended to boost Ada's mindshare in the commercial world, which IMO benefits all software consumers. Many of us work for software producers during the day but we all buy products for ourselves too. I for one would welcome browsers, e-mail tools, operating systems etc. developed entirely in Ada (or Eiffel) by companies which follow sound software engineering principles. For this reason, I would like *everybody* to know about Ada and what it has to offer. - Mike -- > From: ld@- > Organization: - > Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada > Date: 1 Dec 1999 14:33:09 -0800 > Subject: Re: Business Week (12/6/99 issue) article on Software Quality > > In article , "Michael says... > >> >> If the costs of poor quality software are so bad >> that BW has noticed and devoted a >> feature article to it, perhaps the tide can yet >> turn in Ada's favor. >> >> - Michael Card > > So, let other software companies write bad software. You use Ada > to write good software, make more money. Why do you want > to tell the competition about something good you found? > > ld > > -----------== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News ==---------- http://www.newsfeeds.com The Largest Usenet Servers in the World! ------== Over 73,000 Newsgroups - Including Dedicated Binaries Servers ==-----