"Preben Randhol" wrote in message news:slrnaa97pv.s2.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no... > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:27:45 GMT, WJT wrote: > > > make Ada his own, besides that I believe that MS is starting to understand > > the benefits of ISO standardization. They have submitted C# and the Common > > Language Infrastructure to the ECMA (which is what I'm told the fast track > > to ISO standardization). > > So what? If Mircosoft controls the ISO then it doesn't matter. Mickysoft > is going to whatever they can to prevent portability. After twenty years in the Ada scheme of things I'm willing to sacrifice a little portability in order to get the power I need on the Windows platform. Besides this is Ada, if you architect you system correctly you should be isolating you 'dependent things' into layers and subsystems and keeping the rest of you application true and ...Green. > -- > Preben Randhol �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�