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,e29c511c2b08561c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162634310 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <9606212019.AA11075@eight-ball> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article gwinn@res.ray.com (Joe Gwinn) writes: > In article <4qqc4s$flv@felix.seas.gwu.edu>, mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael > Feldman) wrote: > > > In article , > > Joe Gwinn wrote: > > >I guess I am not convinced that freeware, although certainly useful, is > > >anything I would normally choose to bet my project on. Gnu C seems to be > > >the sole exception. And, development of industrial-strength tool suites > > >requires industrial-strength cashflow. > > > > > Why would you bet your project on GNU C and not on, say, GNU Ada 95? > > Do you have any specific reason for accepting one and rejecting the > > other? Or is this just the usual speculation? > > > > Mike Feldman >[various points that a) do not make a lot of sense b) indicate he never read prior responses answering these points c) or indicate he can't understand said responses d) or possibly, just conveniently ignores them ] You don't happen to be an alias for one Kevin Cline by any chance? /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com