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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,474ef6dae6b7cbe7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-25 20:53:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:53:18 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:53:37 -0500 From: Wesley Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bitaddressing and OOP References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.117.18.109 X-Trace: sv3-pnq7Uu6QhnCbKCHxwrceuaNertFiGfdLHCrEv1Y+iL9GgnQJul9evLZG8X8tizc1kM0MQl/Whr/SLKP!LmkzTlNMwpU2dfbcxVwLZO7WpdbntLyBszxQbjypejNLRFOBQB0ICatxriBCgfynY+Yi63AKJmST!2k0s1A== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36593 Date: 2003-04-25T22:53:37-05:00 List-Id: > things that succeed because they are cheap, not quality. People I read a story today about a shop owner who was told his ailing business would thrive if he would just put up a sign about speaking Spanish. He declined because he didn't want to deceive anyone. The "advisor" gave him a sign that said "No hablamos espa�ol, pero vendemos barato" It worked! (We don't speak Spanish, but we sell cheap." > fairly frequently. I will say XP is about as close to a Mac as Windows > has ever been. I use XP but I haven't done any development on it so far, I'm a long-time Mac fan, but I must disagree. WinXP is reliable, but it stinks for a lot of other reasons. Win2K and WinNT however, we're approaching "decent." I was getting really irritated at Apple for letting Redmond pass them up in the reliability department. I think they released OS X (Unix core) barely in time to save themselves from following Amiga to near oblivion.