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: 103376,58988230753075de X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-29 18:08:51 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: tmoran@acm.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: In praise of Ada Freeware References: X-Newsreader: Tom's custom newsreader Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:08:47 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.82.199 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.sfba.home.com 996455327 24.7.82.199 (Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:08:47 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:08:47 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10701 Date: 2001-07-30T01:08:47+00:00 List-Id: >I believe the third method (known for years as Freeware) may have >particular appeal to some Ada zealots, particularly if they have some >... >If instead they decide to transliterate Ada Freeware into some other >language (and the Ada Freeware is well written), they get a example Back in the days of BBSes, BIX, and Compuserve, many of us posted programs, including source, without restrictions. Of all my postings, just once did someone transliterate from the Ada to C and not reference the original. A little e-mail urging and he added the reference back to the original Ada version. Perhaps others have many horror stories, but I've never heard them. Gee, maybe Windows XP has at its core a transliteration of one of my Ada postings ... but I doubt it. ;)