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-Thread: 103376,d17f9c8d910b90f6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:39:37 -0700 Organization: Newport Instruments Message-ID: Reply-To: rleif@rleif.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1095050393 24151 212.85.156.195 (13 Sep 2004 04:39:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 04:39:53 +0000 (UTC) To: Return-Path: X-Authenticated-User: rleif.rleif.com X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.6353 Thread-Index: AcSZS5cssF7VGE6XT5+t3k15QYjuLA== X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3652 Date: 2004-09-12T21:39:37-07:00 Faustian would be a better term. However, if we get lucky, making any reasonable deal with Microsoft would be much better than our present diminished prospects. All that I wish for in the .Net world is that Ada is brought up to be equal to Eiffel. If Microsoft should discover Ada or SPARK, more power to them. I am on the side of any group of capitalists who use Ada. If the new Ada users demolish their competition, I will rejoice. Frankly, I believe that Ada can provide Microsoft with something better than money, a chance to make their competitors look like a group of fools. Any one of the present competitors could have stopped Microsoft, if they made reliable well engineered products. Instead the competitors use Java and XML DTDs. When the economy functions correctly, stupid business men go broke. I might feel sorry for the average shareholders; however, this is the way capitalism is supposed to work. Bob Leif ------------------- Message: 7 Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 11:05:24 +0800 From: Adrian Hoe Subject: Re: Microsoft & Ada To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Message-ID: <41450d47$1_1@news.tm.net.my> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed stephane richard wrote: >>That's not a big problem. Ada needs some backing. If Microsoft has an Ada >>compiler this will be a good thing to have Ada used in projects, manager >>will >>be reassure... enven if you do not use Microsoft Visual Ada :) >> >>Pascal. >> > > I second this fully :-). no matter what the reason, even if any, it could > be a great > step for Ada. > > > To trade Ada's soul for that? This sounds very satanic. :( -- Adrian Hoe m a i l b o x AT a d r i a n h o e . c o m