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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dc94fe39f71093ec X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: The revolution will not be standardized Date: 1999/12/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 560253949 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <82p7hu$l1q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <82ppc9$1u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <385252E8.FF140CD2@acenet.com.au> <8333q3$9rh$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8335ip$b8f$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 945121197 nnrp-13:27986 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: Insert witty pun here User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.7 (UNIX) Reply-To: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 16:06:54 GMT, reason67@my-deja.com wrote: >Yes it is. You have the freedom to choose to use Java under the >restrictions put on it by Sun. You do not have the freedom to force Sun OTOH only Sun says what "Java" is, and they've recently removed it from the standardisation process. One of the major things about Ada that I prefer over Java is that it's standardised, and that that standard is freely available. - Aidan (who would, frankly, be lost without the LRM and refers to it more often than any of his text books) -- http://www.skinner.demon.co.uk/aidan/ http://www.gla.ac.uk/Clubs/WebSoc/~9704075s/ "I could always suspend a few hundred accounts and watch what happens"