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=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,891a075e642e6f14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-11-06 04:38:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in.superfeed.net!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!newsfeed.onecall.net!chcgil2-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A little Ada app Date: 6 Nov 2002 05:37:40 -0600 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1036586214 22715 192.135.80.34 (6 Nov 2002 12:36:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 12:36:54 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:30441 Date: 2002-11-06T05:37:40-06:00 List-Id: In article , tmoran@acm.org writes: > This evening local election results will be displayed on Saratoga > Community Access Television by an Ada program. Saratoga is in Santa Clara > County, California, a.k.a. Silicon Valley. The Ada program, using Claw > on Windows, will periodically dial in and harvest updated numbers from the > county Registrar of Voters web site. The races of local interest will be > shown via TV output from the Sony laptop to Saratoga's cable TV subscribers. > If all goes well, it will run completely automatically until midnight. If things go not so well (e.g., Florida, 2000) that particular Ada program could run for weeks or months :-)