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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 12:44:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: an interested business-oriented programmer References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 19:44:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 991943082 24.7.82.199 (Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:44:42 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 12:44:42 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8345 Date: 2001-06-07T19:44:42+00:00 List-Id: >Gnat manages to do it with just "stdcall" as an interface convention, which is Is there a Windows targetted compiler that doesn't support "stdcall"? >compiler vendors prefer to tie their customers in with proprietary language >extensions and GUI interfaces that do everything for you so you don't have to "Switching costs are the norm in information industries." Shapiro and Varian, "Information Rules", Harvard Business School Press