Currency Quotes

Scott MacHaffie machaffi at fred.cs.washington.edu
Mon Mar 5 07:13:57 AEST 1990


In article <8224 at hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu at hubcap.clemson.edu writes:
>   Oh, by the way, Bob, you'll be pleased to know that Reuters (which
>   supplies the Nightly Business Report with its market data, including
>   currency quotes) is delivering that market data using Ada software...
>   the introduction of Ada technology into Reuters was described at the
>   ACM SIGAda Tri-Ada '88 conference.  Sorry you missed it!!!

So what's your point? Do you understand the difference between hardware and
software?  Do you even realize that there is a difference?
Hardware is the physical parts of a computer such as the disk drives,
monitors, terminals, modems, etc.
Software is the programs that run on a computer.

A computer program (software) can NOT provide CURRENT currency exchange rates
without hardware which is designed to collect the currency rates from somewhere.

ADA SOFTWARE can not deliver market reports without reading data from the
market using a modem or a similiar HARDWARE device.

If you're going to be stupid, please take it to an appropriate news group,
such as alt.stupid.users.who.dont.have.a.clue.and.never.will.

			Scott MacHaffie



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