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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Nasser M. Abbasi" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 18:19:05 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <2f813569-5ff8-4c20-a5ab-8538e6514906@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: nma@12000.org NNTP-Posting-Host: FlCXGwhQlFv+3IL7ojNklA.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:17246 Date: 2013-09-23T18:19:05-05:00 List-Id: On 9/23/2013 1:05 AM, Shark8 wrote: >> Make one small program that does one thing, but does it very well, is >> what I like about Unix/Linux. (...but I am still waiting for the year that >> Linux finally figures how to build an easy to use desktop :) > > Because of the above mentality*, it may never happen. > Well, it has just happened!! "Intel: The year of the Linux desktop is here" "Intel sees Linux as the leading end-user operating system." http://www.zdnet.com/intel-the-year-of-the-linux-desktop-is-here-7000020849/ (I do however remember reading articles such the above in each of the last 10 or more years claiming the same thing, so we just have to wait and see if this year is _really_ that year that everyone has been waiting for or not :) --Nasser