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 10.182.149.168 with SMTP id ub8mr44758529obb.8.1438243394776; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:03:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.92.247 with SMTP id b110mr651303qge.6.1438243394750; Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:03:14 -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!f3no4794824igg.0!news-out.google.com!4ni82933qgh.1!nntp.google.com!z61no4117512qge.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 01:03:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.203.145.32; posting-account=AFCLjAoAAABJAOf_HjgEEEi3ty-lG5m2 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.203.145.32 References: <2df4698f-4c8e-457c-822d-209cb2f8ab5e@googlegroups.com> <014427b1-ff7a-4a69-82e6-0330af77ed96@googlegroups.com> <91f88d79-197c-419f-84a8-908e05967a2c@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <135c2b00-d13c-4f5d-a586-8aca442d363b@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Running a preprocessor from GPS? From: EGarrulo Injection-Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 08:03:14 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27179 Date: 2015-07-30T01:03:14-07:00 List-Id: On Thursday, July 30, 2015 at 9:31:36 AM UTC+2, bj=F6rn lundin wrote: > On 2015-07-30 08:01, Niklas Holsti wrote: > > On 15-07-30 03:10 , EGarrulo wrote: > >> Who knows? But since the realm of Ada is limited to embedded > >> development, > >=20 > > It isn't. >=20 > It is certainly not. > I've spent 18 years writing Ada in WMS/WCS systems - > Database intense system with 100+ concurrent users > Nothing embedded at all with them. That doesn't mean much. Ada doesn't offer any facility for automatic resource management, and that makes it unsuitable for applications that go beyond constrained embedded development. Who wants to chase resource leaks in this day and age? Not to mention the crippled support for exceptions in Ada.