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: 103376,474ef6dae6b7cbe7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-25 11:15:36 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!skynet.be!skynet.be!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bitaddressing and OOP Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 14:15:06 -0400 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1051294535 31915 137.194.161.2 (25 Apr 2003 18:15:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:15:35 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bitaddressing and OOP Thread-Index: AcMLKX4J/7tcqvHlTCebydrJqimUsQALK2/Q X-OriginalArrivalTime: 25 Apr 2003 18:15:07.0231 (UTC) FILETIME=[99D286F0:01C30B56] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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:36565 Date: 2003-04-25T14:15:06-04:00 -----Original Message----- From: soft-eng [mailto:softeng3456@netscape.net] > Works for me (plus several million other people.) > I even used Unix for years, even when it DIDN't > work 1/10th as reliably as today's Windows. Do your thought patterns often diverge this much? You're contradicting yourself. You are saying you used Unix (a success by your own definition) despite it's lack of reliability (aka quality). Frank