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: 2003-04-29 09:07:20 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!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: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 12:05:39 -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 1051632439 49544 137.194.161.2 (29 Apr 2003 16:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:07:19 +0000 (UTC) To: 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: AcMOAc1MRS8QieKgQvWX5QmqV288GgAZ1MmQ X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Apr 2003 16:05:40.0471 (UTC) FILETIME=[2E200070:01C30E69] 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:36733 Date: 2003-04-29T12:05:39-04:00 Has anybody else seen this article that is of relevance here? http://www.acm.org/technews/articles/2003-5/0428m.html#item2 I'd be interested in softeng3456's (nice cryptic non-software=20 engineering name) opinion here, since it some what opposes his=20 ideas. =20 I'm not sure he will see this if it's only posted on comp.lang.ada. Frank