From: jcallen@Encore.COM (Jerry Callen)
Subject: Re: Ada & IBM
Date: 20 Nov 89 04:53:32 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10407@encore.Encore.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20600018@inmet
In article <20600018@inmet> ryer@inmet.inmet.com writes:
>
>Last I heard, Ada is not on the list of _acceptable_ languages for IBM's
>SAA (Systems Application Architecture?) applications. (SAA is IBM's big
>new advance in portability and interoperability and a fundamental part
>of their strategy for computing in the 90's). If a program
>is coded in Ada, it can't comply with SAA, regardless of any other
>compatibility or interfaces. Has this changed? It is easy to write
>a brochure, but where's the beef?
>
>Mike Ryer
>(personal comment, not endorsed by my employer, Intermetrics)
Hi, Mike! Actually, the "SAA Languages" are just the languages
that IBM is promising to keep _compatible_ on all of the SAA "platforms."
(Geez, I hate that psuedo-word.) Just because a language isn't supported
by IBM as an SAA language doesn't mean you can't _use_ the language on
an SAA system. In particular, I think it behooves IBM to come up with a
standard set of Ada bindings to the various SAA subsystems (communications
and database, especially) that WOULD be portable across the SAA
platforms. After all, Ada is already totally portable, eh? :-)
-- Jerry Callen
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Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1989-11-14 21:24 A farewell to Ada Ted Holden
1989-11-14 22:54 ` schmidt
1989-11-15 16:06 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-15 16:29 ` Ada & IBM William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 15:16 ` ryer
1989-11-18 18:47 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-20 4:53 ` Jerry Callen [this message]
1989-11-19 6:05 ` Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 19:20 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-19 20:19 ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-20 12:55 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-25 23:35 ` Liam R. E. Quin
1989-11-26 9:03 ` Ken Ritchie
1989-11-15 23:18 ` Ada Promises Doug Schmidt
1989-11-16 22:45 ` Ada compilers William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-19 6:30 ` This has gotten stupid! Dick Dunn
1989-11-16 19:08 ` Ada Walter Rowe
1989-11-16 21:33 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 18:53 ` Ada Pablo Fernicola
1989-11-18 18:55 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 5:24 ` Ada Andrew Koenig
1989-11-22 9:54 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-22 18:44 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-23 9:44 ` Ada Mats Luthman
1989-11-23 7:12 ` Ada Markku Sakkinen
1989-11-21 14:35 ` Ada [and the object oriented metaphor] mjl
1989-11-22 20:54 ` Hoare, Ada, and safety/complexity John Goodenough
1989-11-24 0:38 ` Richard Pattis
1989-11-26 6:09 ` Ada vs. C++ Paul S. R. Chisholm
1989-11-18 6:38 ` Ada Marco S Hyman
1989-11-19 7:25 ` interesting statistic Dick Dunn
1989-11-22 18:54 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-24 17:44 ` Cay Horstmann
1989-11-25 19:59 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-17 15:59 ` Ada allows one-char names (was Re: Ada) Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm
1989-11-19 5:52 ` Forward into the past Dick Dunn
1989-11-20 16:47 ` Ada vs. Posix -- the battle continues mjl
1989-11-20 21:51 ` Ada & Posix William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-21 1:06 ` William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1989-11-15 18:55 ` A farewell to Ada Richard S D'Ippolito
1989-11-17 17:19 ` Michael Schwartz
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