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: fac41,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 107d55,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid107d55,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,c7b637f8b783b7c X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: jsa@alexandria.organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: The great Java showcase (re: 2nd historic mistake) Date: 1997/08/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 269210844 Distribution: world References: <34023FC9.59E2B600@eiffel.com> <3404670B.C3A2C4A2@pagesmiths.com> <34047A7D.62319AC4@eiffel.com> <34048653.63DECDAD@eiffel.com> <8p6k9h610pc.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> Organization: PSINet Newsgroups: comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.java.tech,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1997-08-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > Mike Coffin says > > < comes to technical information, how about just going to the source?>> > > Several people on this newsgroup have (very reasonably) cautioned that > newspapers may not be the best source of information. I would like to > suggest that neither is the PR department of the company affected, which > is of course working to put the best possible spin on this situation! Wise words - that apply at least as much to the _source_ of this particular rumor's occurance here. /Jon -- Jon Anthony OMI, Belmont, MA 02178, 617.484.3383 "Nightmares - Ha! The way my life's been going lately, Who'd notice?" -- Londo Mollari