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,d6f7b92fd11ab291 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-15 14:59:24 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!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!hse-mtl-ppp74710.qc.sympatico.CA!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers Date: 15 Jul 2003 21:59:23 GMT Message-ID: References: <1058275843.720814@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: hse-mtl-ppp74710.qc.sympatico.ca (64.229.209.233) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1058306363 10676556 64.229.209.233 (16 [125932]) X-Draft-From: ("nntp+chvatal:comp.lang.ada" 14010) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40307 Date: 2003-07-15T21:59:23+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > John R. Strohm wrote: >> Sounds sort of like the database at the center of a Stoneman APSE to me. >> That idea dates back to, what, the late 1970s? > The idea may date back, but as I recall, the implementations were > horrible, leading to frequent unnecessary "recompile the world" > scenarios. I am guessing that Microsoft will do a much better job. What with the stunning jobs they have done on everything else, why on earth would you guess that? -- select 'cbbrowne' || '@' || 'cbbrowne.com'; http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linuxxian.html "Ah, the 20th century, when the flight from reason crash-landed into the slaughterhouse." --- James Ostrowski