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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.66.145.225 with SMTP id sx1mr12428612pab.21.1432329734611; Fri, 22 May 2015 14:22:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.43.72 with SMTP id d66mr163185qga.25.1432329734539; Fri, 22 May 2015 14:22:14 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!h15no7690320igd.0!news-out.google.com!k20ni44855qgd.0!nntp.google.com!z60no3282289qgd.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 14:22:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=78.27.123.114; posting-account=QrZwxQoAAAByl3YAWTpexAk3yBYyZMHn NNTP-Posting-Host: 78.27.123.114 References: <127b004d-2163-477b-9209-49d30d2da5e1@googlegroups.com> <59a4ee45-23fb-4b0e-905c-cc16ce46b5f6@googlegroups.com> <46b2dce1-2a1c-455d-b041-3a9d217e2c3f@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <12edf4ce-e576-4659-9d79-97ae1cb932f3@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Build language with weak typing, then add scaffolding later to strengthen it? From: kalvin.news@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 21:22:14 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:25969 Date: 2015-05-22T14:22:14-07:00 List-Id: perjantai 22. toukokuuta 2015 23.32.45 UTC+3 Jeffrey R. Carter kirjoitti: > On 05/22/2015 01:04 PM, kalvin.-nospamhere- news@gmail.com wrote: > > > > In my opinion, one of Ada's problem is that it is not allowed to call a > > compiler an Ada compiler if it implements only a subset of the language and > > the compiler has not beed certified. Please correct me if I am wrong here. I > > would consider a subset of Ada quite attractive if it provided same > > functionality as a C99, providing Ada's strong type checking and better > > grammar etc. - and if the compiler would be available even for the smaller > > microcontrollers for free (in the similar manner as C is available). > > Weren't you the one railing against people using out-of-date information a > couple of paragraphs earlier in your post? When Ada was a trademark of the DoD, > you could only use the term for a compiler that implemented the full language > and had been certified. At the time of Ada 95 the DoD gave up the trademark, so > there is no authority preventing you from misusing the name. GNAT, for example, > by default is not an Ada compiler. > > -- > Jeff Carter > "I'll get broads up here like you wouldn't believe. > Swingers. Freaks. Nymphomaniacs. Dental hygienists." > Play It Again, Sam > 125 Guilty as charged. But at least I do know that Ada has successfully ported as cross-compile for Avr microcontrollers and there is this thing called Ravenscar-profile.