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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn From: dcn@ihuxl.UUCP (Dave Newkirk) Newsgroups: net.lang.ada Subject: Where are the Ada* compilers? Message-ID: <1036@ihuxl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 10:24:21 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxl.1036 Posted: Fri Apr 6 10:24:21 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 04:44:52 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL List-Id: This is extracted from a letter in the April ACM by Robert E. Fritz that asks a tough question: where is an Ada* compiler? ... The only thing that seems to be missing after five years of the Ada age is a compiler capable of solving the problems for which Ada was originally designed. ... the government has not yet produced a usable validated compiler. ... There are THREE validated Ada compilers: one which executes at 10 lines per minute, another with a maximum program length of 300 lines, and a third which operates on a computer excluded from use by two-thirds of DoD. Were the Ada critics right when they said that full Ada compilers were too hard to build? How much of Ada's 40 year life span do we have to wait for a compiler? Dave Newkirk, ihnp4!ihuxl!dcn