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: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-09 09:17:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!xara.net!gxn.net!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: is ada dead? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 17:13:50 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.153.27 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 994695153 62.252.153.27 (Mon, 09 Jul 2001 17:12:33 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 17:12:33 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9681 Date: 2001-07-09T17:13:50+01:00 List-Id: > >This made me question it's relevance to me. I thought that the language would > >have capabilities unrelated to the projects I work on. I couldn't have been > >more wrong. It would have been better if she'd have said something like "parts > >of projects like AdaOS or seti@home have been written in it", but that was two > >years ago. Maybe this is just me. > Well...in fairness to her, the SETI@Home Service wasn't around two years ago. Sorry for my poor English, that's what i meant by "but that was two years ago". > Still, its awfully nice to think that the project could be used as an explicit > evangelism tool. Its going to be awfully tough to wipe the smile off my face the > rest of the day... :-) LOL Chris