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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1ea92c0e5255811d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-01 08:22:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Alexandre E. Kopilovitch" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Container libraries Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 19:22:33 +0300 (MSK) Organization: h w c employees, b f Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1046535774 17290 137.194.161.2 (1 Mar 2003 16:22:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:22:54 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34774 Date: 2003-03-01T19:22:33+03:00 Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: >... Similarly, in the former USSR, people did not have to worry about which >brand of butter to buy - if they had one, they were happy. This is too imprecise a statement. Certainly, people even in the former USSR were not happy with bad butter, even if they coudn't ... not exactly "buy", but rather "obtain" or "find" another. The truth is that there were few sorts of butter, and they were *ordered* in their quality. For example, everbody knew that "Vologodskoe" (named after city of Vologda) was the best. So, although it is true that people in former the USSR had much less to decide about common things, it was mostly caused not by deficit itself, but by stable and well-known ordering/ranking in quality. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia