Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course?

[Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>]

On 13 Lis, 04:31, "Peter C. Chapin" <pcha...@sover.net> wrote:

> Twenty years ago we ran an Ada compiler on a 8088 based
> system with 640 Kbytes of RAM running MS-DOS (Janus Ada). I seriously
> doubt if one could squeeze a C++98 compiler into such a small box.

Me too, especially if we take into account that twenty years ago there
was no C++98.

I think you have mixed two concepts anyway. The size of the
compilation system and the size of the compiled program are two
different things.
You might argue that there is still need to *run* programs on
8088/640kB hardware, but you will not convince me that there is a need
to *compile* them on the same hardware.
The size of compilation system does not matter and languages should
not be compared based on this factor.

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