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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a4a373312601ca4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: collins@cs.wm.edu (Bob Collins) Subject: Re: CompUSA New Policy Date: 1999/02/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 449507595 References: <36CC64A1.3E98D9B4@Botton.com> <7avmc6$gvf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b16dn$p0e$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <1999Feb24.131906.1@eisner> <7b3oah$teq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4fod$kd4$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b4lhn$465@drn.newsguy.com> <7b53kl$6f1$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7b59m9$a4v@drn.newsguy.com> <7bagdq$kn9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7baj6j$e57@drn.newsguy.com> <1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner> X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news.rdc1.va.home.com 920209430 24.2.56.132 (Sun, 28 Feb 1999 05:43:50 PDT) Organization: Computer Science @ William & Mary NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 05:43:50 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Completely off-topic now (sorry), but the latest edition of the print magazine Wired has an interesting article on the $50,000,000 worth of punch cards still sold today (for use as a computer data medium) and the companies that still support the key punch hardware. Not bad for something that was predicted to be obsolete in the mid-70's. In article <1999Feb28.071208.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > In article <7baj6j$e57@drn.newsguy.com>, bill@ writes: > > > Any way. The whole active X, VB, COM, Windows world is dying. You might not > > see it now, but wait 2-3 years. The new revolution in software is > > happening in the world of open source and the GNU/Linux/Apache and all > > of this will become the new platform where exciting things will be > > developed on (and hopefully Ada will be part of this). And when windows > > die, VB will die with it since that is only place it is used on. > > That sounds like a prediction of "will die" rather than a report of > "is dying". Remember the fate of all past advocates in the computing > field who have predicted "my new favorite will soon replace > the old trashy ". > > Larry Kilgallen -- Bob Collins