From: kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
Subject: Re: ARPA still undermining Ada
Date: 12 Oct 1994 13:22:40 GMT
Date: 1994-10-12T13:22:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37gnv0$j5u@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37gn4u$ljj@gnat.cs.nyu.edu
In article <37gn4u$ljj@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
>As to whether a particular piece of free software competes well technically
>with some particular piece of proprietary software, that has to be judged
>on a case by case basis. It would be a mistake to understand from Tarjei's
>comment that proprietary software is always superior in all cases to free
>software. That's just not so, there are lots of people and projects that
>choose to use free software because it is the best technical choice for the
>job (indeed there are systems, like Nextstep, where the vendor themselves
>has decided that GCC is the best available compiler, and thus it is the
>only one available).
I've long complained to the G++ folks that the lack of quality of G++
is an embarassment to the FSF and GNU project. Please don't take this
as an example of typical FSF software. emacs and GCC (not including
G++) are better examples.
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[not found] ` <37ab0v$n82@newsbf01.news.aol.com>
[not found] ` <37bph1$naq@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>
1994-10-11 16:01 ` ARPA still undermining Ada Thomas Hood 913-4501
1994-10-12 9:50 ` Tarjei Jensen
1994-10-12 22:02 ` Charles Stump
1994-10-14 6:27 ` Dennis Troup
1994-10-16 7:02 ` Jason Elliot Robbins
1994-10-17 14:13 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-18 17:53 ` Arcadia Sandy Wise
1994-10-11 17:01 ` ARPA still undermining Ada Kevin Priest~
1994-10-11 19:49 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 9:43 ` Tarjei Jensen
1994-10-12 13:08 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-12 13:22 ` Richard Kenner [this message]
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1994-10-17 14:25 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-17 19:09 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-17 19:14 ` Jay Martin
1994-10-18 1:47 ` John M. Mills
1994-10-18 11:19 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-18 17:12 ` Kevin Cline
1994-10-18 2:10 ` Richard Kenner
1994-10-18 16:35 ` Robert Dewar
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1994-10-24 2:22 ` Bjarne Stroustrup <9758-26353> 0112760
1994-10-27 6:50 ` Introspect Technologies
1994-10-27 16:52 ` Richard G. Hash
1994-10-27 17:39 ` RMS's response to "Re: ARPA still undermining Ada" Richard Kenner
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1994-10-18 16:25 ` ARPA still undermining Ada Michael Feldman
1994-10-12 19:13 ` Mark C. Chu-Carroll
1994-10-13 3:55 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-17 14:35 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-18 16:39 ` Robert Dewar
1994-10-19 1:05 ` Michael Feldman
1994-10-13 15:42 Dennis Heimbigner
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