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From: gibian@turbo.RAY.COM (Marc Gibian SUD x 3393)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Assembly language (was: Re: Another 1.3 wish.)
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Date: Thu, 20-Aug-87 19:27:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 20 19:27:19 1987
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Organization: Raytheon Company, Marlborough MA
Keywords: No affordable validated home Ada compilers.
Summary: Another point of view on a Public Domain ADA and other issues
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I can not remain silent after reading the referenced posting.  As a member of
the corporate world attempting to use ADA for one of its designated purposes,
embedded military systems, a validated ADA compiler for home computers seems
a useless piece of software.  ADA was not designed to allow the development
of inexpensive compilers.  It was designed (for better or for worse) for 
military software, usually very large software systems, where the cost of
the compiler is a very small part of the overall budget.  There are certainly
lots of things to fault in ADA, but this is not one.


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Marc S. Gibian
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