From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Dec 92 15:09:44 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!milano!cobweb.mcc.com!breland@uunet.uu.net (Mark Breland) Subject: Re: Open Systems closed to Ada? Message-ID: <1992Dec8.150944.5422@mcc.com> List-Id: Since my original post started this free for all, I suppose I should collaborate with Mike Feldman to help bring it to a close. My intent in the original post was to assess the community's feelings about the Ada/Open Systems relationship. The thread's descent into a fiery flame-off between opposing language proponents both disturbs and angers me. There is no need whatsoever for distortion and vindictiveness between professionals attempting to determine a reasonable means of making all of our jobs more effective. Every language has its own philosophical roots, some being more closely related than others. However, there must be some acceptable middle ground to support interoperability. Regardless of personal preferences, regardless of mandates, regardless of OO, regardless of whose model came first, regardless of performance/efficiency, this all boils down to a cold, hard, business fact. Re-use will be a pre-eminent requirement as all customers strive to cut development costs to the absolute bone. An application may very well be more appropriately implemented in language X, yet end up employing language Y because there already existed a preponderance of EXISTING language Y components which addressed the application's problem domain. So pick your analogous metaphor (religion, caste, race, gender) and call me altruistic, but the entire computing community must plot a path to common ground (to at least shake hands and pass info), or we're doomed to an infinite recursive standoff. Mark A. Breland - Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation (MCC) Ada Fault Tolerance | voice: (512) 338-3509 3500 West Balcones Center Drive | FAX: (512) 338-3900 Austin, Texas 78759-6509 USA | internet: breland@mcc.com