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-Thread: 103376,f15b862e11b575a4 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!y14g2000vbb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: KK6GM Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Air traffic control system in Java Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 09:24:09 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <4d6ffe16$0$17930$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <835e91b1-50f7-4b20-beaf-5b5afcc66cc5@r4g2000prm.googlegroups.com> <4d701d79$0$17918$a8266bb1@postbox2.readnews.com> <4d711c62$0$27719$882e7ee2@usenet-news.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.35.64.226 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299259449 18080 127.0.0.1 (4 Mar 2011 17:24:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:24:09 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: y14g2000vbb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=12.35.64.226; posting-account=qZVz2QoAAAAN9WxYp-9jYb7jORc4Zqwt User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 barracudaweb.tritool.rancho:8080 (http_scan/4.0.2.6.19) X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; MDDR; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; InfoPath.1),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18790 Date: 2011-03-04T09:24:09-08:00 List-Id: On Mar 4, 9:07=A0am, Hyman Rosen wrote: > On 3/3/2011 8:07 PM, KK6GM wrote: > > > On Mar 3, 3:00 pm, Hyman Rosen =A0wrote: > > >> Graphical user interfaces are how *all* computer programs now > >> communicate and interact with their users. > > > That is one of the most amazing (and amazingly wrong) things I have > > ever heard any programmer say. > > Make sure you take this with you on your way out the door. > Here are two devices I chose pretty much at random. They have one or more processors running one or more computer programs. They have neither video nor printer output. I could probably come up with a million other examples. Maybe ten million. http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=3DSTR&ttID=3DSTR&Nav=3D http://www.logitech.com/en-us/keyboards/keyboard/devices/6007