DEC Ada run-time error messages (Was: More Ashamedness of Ada - this t ime OBJECT WORLD)

[pa.dec.com!cnam.cnam.fr!bortz@decuac.dec.com (Stephane Bortzmeyer)]

In article <112@fedfil.UUCP>, news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
> In article <1992Nov11.142808.17224@aber.ac.uk>, btk@aber.ac.uk
(Benjamin Thomas Ketteridge) writes:
...
>>  the DEC Ada compile-time messages are
>> very good, but it suffers from C-like run-time error-messages (this is not
>> surprising since the main program of DEC Ada programs is actually in C!)
> 
> You wouldn't expect them to write anything that complex in a goof language
> like Ada, would you?

DEC's "Software Product Description" says that the DEC Ada compiler for
Ultrix is written in Bliss and Ada (no proportions given). So, it's not
the fault of C...

> Ted Holden

He's back! He probably thought that Gregory's Aharonian criticisms were
too honest and too documented... 

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