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!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!gnilink.net!trndny07.POSTED!c2bfcbcf!not-for-mail Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> Message-ID: From: "Ed Falis" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Opera M2/7.54 (Linux, build 751) Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:22:21 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.154.17.233 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: trndny07 1092360141 141.154.17.233 (Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:22:21 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 21:22:21 EDT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2705 Date: 2004-08-13T01:22:21+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 01:37:26 +0100, Nick Roberts wrote: > Ed, I'm pretty certain that Richie was not implicating Alsys in his > comments. Everybody knows that Alsys was one of the few companies > that struggled to bring a good Ada compiler to the masses (I was one > of those masses). Richard and I know each other well, and I'm pretty sure he knows that my having to comment on his statement was not personal in any way. There were those of us who thought it was our job to do some of those things to make the language successful. And you're right, the corporate environment of the times mitigated against it. - Ed -- "When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to be a wise man. Somehow, I just turned out to be a wise guy".