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,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d892c006426c5e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-24 11:23:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!small1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp3.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.gbronline.com!news.gbronline.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:23:05 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 13:23:20 -0500 From: Wesley Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com Organization: Ain't no organization here! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, es-mx, pt-br, fr-ca MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Tools vs. Parts References: <6LidnfIK-pvMZjqjXTWcog@gbronline.com> <82347202.0304241009.55d9745d@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <82347202.0304241009.55d9745d@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.117.18.98 X-Trace: sv3-qUlHml0ejgqpDaXThos6tUGMguVZ9KsQ5qVcI3wxl4Qr3KIMbuGrLZVWvWykQSwTdLQ1APzUu5PbPR/!me6RIS4fven/Qa/VgbDwgCKqacLpi1JDTBIOiwT39ZJMhG6YlHniZC7F0ngNZjSvecmxmwv6gLIq!xxDy 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:36494 Date: 2003-04-24T13:23:20-05:00 List-Id: > The old "buy or build" issue has been around for a long time. Your response was valid, though the point of my analogy was that IF forced to choose between good tools and good parts, some personalities would go for one, some with another. My own bias probably short-changed the "other side" In Java class, I found the available libraries quite convenient. But I found sticking them together with Java instead of with Ada less than fun.