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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-19 00:50:40 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!feed.news.nacamar.de!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:50:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3lIxa.13309$8g5.207727@news2.e.nsc.no> <3PJxa.13336$8g5.208066@news2.e.nsc.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1053330637 2045 129.241.83.78 (19 May 2003 07:50:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 07:50:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37502 Date: 2003-05-19T07:50:37+00:00 List-Id: Dale Stanbrough wrote: > (i'm not in love with unix - it seems very old in many ways, > and it seems clear that the windows people must have learnt something > - perhaps this is optimistic though). Well the internet is also old, so your point is? I agree that there are a lot of things that could be done differently, but it all boils down to who is the user? -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/