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,de0abe9655235740 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-31 15:28:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.stueberl.de!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ACM Ada Letters References: <3F881B71.7030602@noplace.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:32:57 +0000 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.129 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-winn.server.ntli.net 1067642905 81.98.236.129 (Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:28:25 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 23:28:25 GMT Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1882 Date: 2003-10-31T23:32:57+00:00 List-Id: Nick Roberts wrote: > Well, I use OpenOffice as well. I click on the icon to start it up, then > go and make a cup of tea and feed the cat, and sometimes when I come > back it's nearly finished loading. > > ;-) Must be Windows. On Linux I have noticed speed improvements in releases except 1.1 proper, which was a little slower than 1.1rc1. > I'm sorry, but I cannot help feeling that OO doesn't just need a few > bugs squashing; it needs redesigning and rewriting (in Ada?). Perhaps but what's the language got to do with anything? > I thought > StarOffice was great, but as soon as Sun have something to do with a > piece of software, you just know it's going to go the way of the Dodo. Why? StarOffice is made by Sun... :? > I use OpenOffice only when nothing else will do. Agreed. Sometimes even Latex can fail ;)