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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f40056d015b2ae33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course? Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:50:03 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1194961803.233264.98990@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> References: <4737291e$0$27064$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <47383b63$0$27066$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <47391a9e$0$27037$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 137.138.37.241 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: posting.google.com 1194961803 10571 127.0.0.1 (13 Nov 2007 13:50:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:50:03 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <47391a9e$0$27037$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.12) Gecko/20071019 Red Hat/1.5.0.12-0.7.el4 Firefox/1.5.0.12 pango-text,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=137.138.37.241; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18347 Date: 2007-11-13T05:50:03-08:00 List-Id: On 13 Lis, 04:31, "Peter C. Chapin" 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. -- Maciej Sobczak * www.msobczak.com * www.inspirel.com