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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,53c5fea49e77990c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-29 09:36:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!paloalto-snh1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!paloalto-snr1.gtei.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "WJT" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3CA48637.C5C4DEF5@despammed.com> <5C0p8.2$qt3.190@paloalto-snr1.gtei.net> Subject: Re: Ada Dot Net ? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Message-ID: X-Trace: /bNDCwGqgXiOdu4YawkiKigC5Mi8tIQijXbvp/4P6uxdmjUa8c8PBSIpq4WMr+l0pCCEteQPUiDj!M4y7EdH3dAO65B353TEuvyr4z7+Gx8+71nioXfFT0PRyOFVSDEfY+Z4He/N/QAjRGFu+pvZhoPzJ!erhS/PxpeA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@gte.net X-Abuse-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:35:53 GMT Distribution: world Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:35:53 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21853 Date: 2002-03-29T17:35:53+00:00 List-Id: "Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrnaa98qb.s2.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 17:10:55 GMT, WJT wrote: > > > > After twenty years in the Ada scheme of things I'm willing to sacrifice a > > little portability in order to get the power I need on the Windows platform. > > Which power is this? The power that is offered by the underlying OS (of which a big part of is the GUI), the same power achieved when I was willing to sacrifice portability when using all of the features of the VMS operating system (anyone remember VAX Ada, Ada was a first class citizen under VMS, it lacked nothing)? > > > Besides this is Ada, if you architect you system correctly you should be > > isolating you 'dependent things' into layers and subsystems and keeping the > > rest of you application true and ...Green. Green, Green ... before Ada was Ada the baseline for what we now come to know and love was referred to as the 'Green' version of the language (during the 'design competition' phase of the language's development). > > ? > > -- > Preben Randhol �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�