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: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-04 11:47:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!RRZ.Uni-Koeln.DE!uni-duisburg.de!not-for-mail From: Georg Bauhaus Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Way OT: Adam Smith and Software Markets Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:47:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: GMUGHDU Message-ID: References: <3vo86vk60e69shjgqdbpp6e5pb8qfop3hr@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d2-hrz.uni-duisburg.de X-Trace: a1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de 1046807240 2206 134.91.1.15 (4 Mar 2003 19:47:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-duisburg.de NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:47:20 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (HP-UX/B.11.00 (9000/831)) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34872 Date: 2003-03-04T19:47:20+00:00 List-Id: Frank J. Lhota wrote: : "Preben Randhol" wrote in message : news:slrnb69j5t.13o.randhol+news@kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no... :> What has really happened the last say 5 years in software? : : Off the top of my head, I'd say XML, That thing has been ISO-standardised in 1986 as SGML, and is about 30 years old. (Maybe this indicates what we perceive as new?)