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=-0.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MISSING_MIMEOLE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-02 17:20:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator2-maxim!news-in.spamkiller.net!out.nntp.be!propagator2-SanJose!in.nntp.be!newsfeed.zip.com.au!spool01.syd.optusnet.com.au!spool.optusnet.com.au!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Hide or reveal ? (Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) X-BeenThere: hellfire@templeofhate.com X-MSMail-Priority: High Reply-By: Tue, 24 Jul 1782 19:02:00 +1000 From: Faust Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 12:21:06 +1100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) XEmacs/21.4 (Native Windows TTY Support (Windows)) References: <3E5EDCB1.C841AFDD@adaworks.com> <3E60215B.8E1CB727@adaworks.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:UIakBxaaNzzcvFUEZXD09TuL3rY= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.49.81.163 X-Trace: 1046654392 9539 210.49.81.163 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34813 Date: 2003-03-03T12:21:06+11:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff writes: > I don't agree with that kind of strategy. The problem is that there is > a great value in standards. If you're the last person on earth using > Ada, and Ada is a huge benifit over whatever language is the popular, > that benefit will be lost, because you're going to be providing all the > funding for Ada compiler delevopment, and all the training in Ada > programming. That is exactly why Ericcson made Erlang ( a distributed, concurrent, fault tolerant , realtime language with faul tolerance support ) available free and open sourced it. They wanted the leverage that comes from having an active Erlang community. -- natsu-gusa ya / tsuwamono-domo-ga / yume no ato summer grasses / strong ones / dreams site Summer grasses, All that remains Of soldier's dreams (Basho trans. Stryk)