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: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-08 23:32:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: apm35@student.open.ac.uk (apm) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Date: 8 May 2003 23:32:06 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0304300412.3c9f8157@posting.google.com> <98BC68183770643E.43B22CFE5F4D5EFD.5566989BE627964B@lp.airnews.net> <9fa75d42.0305010645.7a5572ed@posting.google.com> <3EB1C603.7788E194@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.172.169.12 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1052461926 30004 127.0.0.1 (9 May 2003 06:32:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 May 2003 06:32:06 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63360 comp.object:63066 comp.lang.ada:37090 Date: 2003-05-09T06:32:06+00:00 List-Id: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) wrote in message > There are a LOT of bad books covering any popular technology. I have > discovered that book quality is inversely proportional to the > garishness of the cover. Oh? I thought it was inversely proportional to the weight. -apm