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-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!gatel-ffm!gatel-ffm!news2.telebyte.nl!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news2.euro.net!transit.news.xs4all.nl!195.241.76.212.MISMATCH!tiscali!transit1.news.tiscali.nl!dreader2.news.tiscali.nl!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> <1g5v98l6p9j6.omv7rea0j13k.dlg@40tude.net> From: Ludovic Brenta Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2004 19:55:04 +0200 Message-ID: <873c2ktjpj.fsf@insalien.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:mXQ4V+xWL7oKJDPjndKerIHGJFM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Tiscali bv NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Aug 2004 19:55:39 CEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.134.239.85 X-Trace: 1092851739 dreader2.news.tiscali.nl 62368 83.134.239.85:35505 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tiscali.nl Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2809 Date: 2004-08-18T19:55:39+02:00 List-Id: Jean-Pierre Rosen writes: > Historical note: > Borland did consider making an Ada compiler at some point, but gave up > when they discovered they couldn't make a Borland Ada "better" than > regular Ada. > > The team they hired at that time tried to continue the project by > themselves (they asked me to participate), but it never came out. That's interesting. Even back then before "standard" was a buzzword, they understood that standards are meant to benefit the users by making vendors interchangeable. They did not want to be interchangeable; they wanted their customers to be captive. This is the same line of thought that brought proprietary software about a few years earlier. Back in 1989, I used to respect Borland for the quality of their compilers. But now, in hindsight, what you said changed my perspective. -- Ludovic Brenta.