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,FREEMAIL_FROM
	autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922
X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public
X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930
X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public
X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922
X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-30 18:39:24 PST
Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail
From: owski@hotmail.com (Adam Ruth)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc
Subject: Re: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit  addressing and OOP
Date: 30 Apr 2003 18:39:23 -0700
Organization: http://groups.google.com/
Message-ID: <f0f51c80.0304301739.2bea6f89@posting.google.com>
References: <mvul4v00ftbai2g6duuh0r38jpii2qvpjl@4ax.com>
 <3E5C7033.BD5DC462@adaworks.com>
 <9fa75d42.0302260618.7506cba7@posting.google.com>
 <3E5CF5C6.84822F57@adaworks.com>
 <a3eaa964.0302261448.6f38de58@posting.google.com>
 <8qkczsAcGcn+Ew83@nildram.co.uk>
 <a3eaa964.0304162216.60978001@posting.google.com>
 <3EA04A1E.CAFC1FEF@adaworks.com>
 <9fa75d42.0304221126.7112b7d5@posting.gOrganization: LJK Software
 <d3xFAUvBYizb@eisner.encompasserve.org>
 <9fa75d42.0304230515.48064263@posting.google.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.26.118.36
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1051753164 6693 127.0.0.1 (1 May 2003 01:39:24
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 May 2003 01:39:24 GMT
Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62958 comp.object:62438
 comp.lang.ada:36788 misc.misc:13843
Date: 2003-05-01T01:39:24+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

> > > (C and later C++ style of type-safety turned out to
> > > be good enough for real-world projects.)
> > 
> > Like Windows ?
> 
> 
> You must live in a different world from me -- I look
> around, and from the web-browser to the newsreaders
> to the email software to the software transporting
> your packets full of Ada praise to the software
> controlling the switching stations enroute to...
> 
> You don't like Windows, so you must be using
> what?  Unix and X-Windows?  Written/extended/in Ada?
> Surely Ada was there when most of X-Windows
> and Motif happened?  Or at least when the
> CD-ROM device drivers were being written?
> 
> What now did you say these very expensive
> Ada projects actually do?

I always find it interesting how some people think that the software
they use is the only software in the world...  "If I haven't used it,
it doesn't exist!"  There's much more to life than desktop O/Ss, GUIs,
and productivity apps.

Adam