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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-30 05:58:11 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!pipex!uunet!zib-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de!spiegel From: spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Andre Spiegel) Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? In-Reply-To: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu's message of 25 Nov 1994 15:26:02 -0500 [ 25 Nov 1994 21:26:02 MET ] Message-ID: Sender: news@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de Organization: University of Stuttgart, Germany References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <784995260snz@rippleco.demon.co.uk> <3at748$3bg@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <3b5ajt$n86@news-2.csn.net> <3b5h8q$de0@felix.seas.gwu.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 1994 09:51:05 GMT Date: 1994-11-30T09:51:05+00:00 List-Id: Michael Feldman writes: [...] > Berkeley Unix, X Windows, and a raft of other software things over the ^^^^^^^^^ [...] I guess to someone who knows how to spell "Ada" correctly, it should be pointed out that the official name is `the X window system' (a window system named `X'), but certainly not `X Windows'. (The latter suggesting a relation to `MS Windows,' which couldn't be further from the truth of course ;-). -- Andre Spiegel | This life is a test. It is only a test. | Had this been an actual life, you would University of Stuttgart, Germany | have received further instructions as to Computer Science | where to go and what to do. -- Author unknown email: spiegel@bruessel.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de