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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,50601885924edfd3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-04 00:16:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd950e39f.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft .Net, Ada should be at the head of this list Date: 4 Jun 2002 07:16:47 GMT Organization: People's Front of Judea Message-ID: References: <3cfc6205_2@news.tm.net.my> NNTP-Posting-Host: pd950e39f.dip.t-dialin.net (217.80.227.159) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1023175007 34735921 217.80.227.159 (16 [124666]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (FreeBSD) Cache-Post-Path: gargamel.hqd-internal!unknown@gargamel.hqd-internal X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25291 Date: 2002-06-04T07:16:47+00:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote in comp.lang.ada: > Gerhard H�ring wrote: >> Robert C. Leif wrote in comp.lang.ada: >>>The reason I posted this was to benefit the commercial use of Ada. >> >>>I doubt that Microsoft would believe that Ada was a serious >>>commercial threat. >>> >> >> Why would $ProgrammingLanguage be a threat to $Company? That doesn't >> make any sense to me. > > Ada will put out their business because their software is bugle$$ and > users will no longer to upgrade their software so frequently. That's bullshit. Programming languages don't take companies out of business. Competing companies and competing better products and better marketing do. I'm not aware of any product developed in Ada that competes with a Microsoft product. Perhaps an embedded Ada RTOS competing with Windows CE would come closest. Gerhard -- mail: gerhard bigfoot de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id 86AB43C0 public key fingerprint: DEC1 1D02 5743 1159 CD20 A4B6 7B22 6575 86AB 43C0 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))