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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,243dc2fb696a49cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kevin.cline@gmail.com (Kevin Cline) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Popularity: Comparison of Ada/Charles with C++ STL (and Perl) Date: 23 Sep 2004 11:30:43 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <11b4d.3849$d5.30042@newsb.telia.net> <1095860313.176522@yasure> NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.23.5.11 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1095964243 5200 127.0.0.1 (23 Sep 2004 18:30:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 18:30:43 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4033 Date: 2004-09-23T11:30:43-07:00 List-Id: Anders Wirzenius wrote in message news:... > Why are printed newspapers still popular even if a lot of > people have a permanent, uninterrupted Internet connection > and are able to rapidly move even between several > electronic newspapers? Because a newspaper is a set of unrelated articles, and we read the articles from beginning to end. And we don't have to edit the newspaper, just read it. Newspaper writers and editors universally do their work on a computer screen.