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-Thread: 103376,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Michael Bode Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:52:42 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: p57b602d9.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: online.de 1199566366 21230 87.182.2.217 (5 Jan 2008 20:52:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2008 20:52:46 +0000 (UTC) X-message-flag: IMPORTANT MESSAGE -- PLEASE READ IMMEDIATELY!!! X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .rtf, .ps, .pdf - *NO* MS Office files User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.95 (gnu/linux) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19225 Date: 2008-01-05T21:52:42+01:00 List-Id: "Jeffrey R. Carter" writes: > Let's see: Visual Studio or Delphi, which are Windows only, are > acceptable, but Janus Ada is not because it's Windows only. They are not acceptable if I want to develope portable apps. I gave other examples that are. Except maybe that you can develope Mono apps that can be compiled with VS .NET on Windows. Not that I would like to rely on Mono when Microsoft plays their patent cards. -- No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law. He simply follows the eleventh commandment. -- R.A. Heinlein