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,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-19 04:33:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!news-hub.siol.net!news.siol.net!not-for-mail From: Karel Miklav User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calenday (was Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com> <8db3d6c8.0212091445.12594821@posting.google.com> <3DF628C4.7090607@cogeco.ca> <3DF6653D.3030603@cogeco.ca> <8db3d6c8.0212101850.51506572@posting.google.com> <3DF8D33F.9020205@cogeco.ca> <3E01BA24.7648FEC2@konad.de> In-Reply-To: <3E01BA24.7648FEC2@konad.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:33:58 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.77.153.232 X-Complaints-To: abuse@siol.net X-Trace: news.siol.net 1040301238 193.77.153.232 (Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:33:58 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 13:33:58 MET Organization: Slovenija OnLine - SiOL Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:32077 Date: 2002-12-19T13:33:58+01:00 List-Id: I thouhgt they're simply joking :) Frank Piron wrote: > Hi, > > seems to me, that the "calendary" discussion is typical > for ADA95 enthusiasts. > > The C - Programmer works for performance and nowaday for > nothing but performance. > > The Java - Programmer works for building longer and longer > class names, hoping that someday there is at least one > java application which is platform independent. > > The Visual Basic - Programmer works for ... aahhh, money ? > > But the ADA community does work for eternity and the hall of > fame in computer programming. > > So everything has to be thought out till the very end. But for > the price that many good ideas never come to work. > > Frank Piron > > Peter Hermann schrieb: > >>Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: >> >>>But I still believe that there is hope that this may change >>>over time. I think that the Ada standards need to move beyond >>>the focus of the embedded market to the business and general >>>purpose use to improve its acceptability. Give us a _PROPER_ >>>Ada.Calendar package for a start! (can't determine the day of >>>the week for example) >> >>http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/adapilotresources/basic_tools/calenday.ads >> >>which is ready to be built into ada.calendar of gnat for Ada2005. >>Of course only after finding a common consensus about the most >>useful spec. :-) >>I am ready to accept suggestions. >> >>-- >>--Peter Hermann(49)0711-685-3611 fax3758 ica2ph@csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de >>--Pfaffenwaldring 27 Raum 114, D-70569 Stuttgart Uni Computeranwendungen >>--http://www.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de/homes/ph/ >>--Team Ada: "C'mon people let the world begin" (Paul McCartney)