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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-13 14:04:21 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshosting.com!news-xfer2.atl.newshosting.com!216.166.71.118.MISMATCH!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 16:04:19 -0600 Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 17:04:20 -0500 From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: groleau@freeshell.org Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Clause "with and use" References: <3FAF8C99.5040201@noplace.com> <3FB0B57D.6070906@noplace.com> <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.9.86.46 X-Trace: sv3-h7jeoyzkorKNV+qv0jfEK0POBuuKCAEzjFrRIik88NaKn3cZXQ2kik1FUOzuS1Cvl6CM5oPWXdgLGDn!u/sZ7iXuAp93wDYVxaUsABNOTZRDFzDyycvHO/bC8Ya6X2bilFL8Dt1QIGvPFGJtpO78gtOBLtA9 X-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@gbronline.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2462 Date: 2003-11-13T17:04:20-05:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > pretty close to the time that Sun was starting to hawk Java. Java had > merits. Sun wanted to make sure the world knew about those merits. > (Please don't deny that Java had some merits - it *was* an improvement > over other things and provided capabilities not found with other > languages - like portable executables across the net and a large > library.) Sun made sure that there were ads in magazines, radio spots, > interviews and "Puff Pieces" on various radio shows (I recall hearing > one on NPR & I think there were probably others). Ada95 had merits - Indeed they did. I couldn't help but notice Sun's feature checklists comparing Java to several other languages. They never mentioned Ada--and I don't believe it was out of ignorance. I think they made a conscious decision to NOT show anyone how Java compared with Ada. :-) -- Wes Groleau "Grant me the serenity to accept those I cannot change; the courage to change the one I can; and the wisdom to know it's me." -- unknown