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From: Georg Bauhaus <sb463ba@l1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de>
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Subject: Re: No call for Ada
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Andrew Carroll <andrew@carroll-tech.net> wrote:
: 
: 
:   It's just amazing to me that there is no one entity to
: organize all these parts.  Microsoft is the entity for Microsoft, Sun is for
: Java, Borland is one for C++.

It is not that different the moment you want to do something
that doesn't happen to be in the vendors' packages. And usually
the number of suppliers can be > 1?