Re: Fun survey! (was: Re: An admittedly biased Ada/C++ comparison, by Ed Schonberg)

Re: Fun survey! (was: Re: An admittedly biased Ada/C++ comparison, by Ed Schonberg)

[J. Giles]

In article <OBRY.92Oct26113622@cheesesteak.flash.bellcore.com>, obry@flash.bell
core.com (Pascal Obry) writes:
                         ^^^^^^
|> [...]
|> If I love Ada, it's not for lack of knowledge of others languages, but becau
se
|> it's definitly the best for me. I think a computer language must match your
|> philosophy of thinking things ...

Someone named Pascal who prefers Ada.  *That's* a real endorsement.

-- 
J. Giles

Re: Fun survey! (was: Re: An admittedly biased Ada/C++ comparison, by Ed Schonberg)

[Pascal Obry]

My turn, 

   1) What is your native language (ex. English, French, Spanish, et.al.)?

	French

   1bis) What computer language do you learn (in order) ?
	 (I think we should add this, to understand better 4 and 5)

	8080/Z80 Basic 8086 Pascal C Fortran Cobol Lisp Ada Eiffel C++

   2) What was the first computer language that you wrote programs in?

	ASSEMBLER 8080 (Z80) on a Amstard 464
	
	But, a little bit before on a Texas-Instrument 57
	(But, I'am not sure if we could called this computer language !!)

   3) What assembly/macro assembly language did you first learn?

	8080/Z80 after 8086

   4) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
   personal computer if cost is not a problem (you have unlimited dollars
   to use)?

	Alsys Ada for a PC with a binding to windows (if one was existing !!)

   5) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
   personal computer if cost is a problem (you have to buy the cheapest)?

	today   : Meridian Ada for windows

	tomorow : GNAT


If I love Ada, it's not for lack of knowledge of others languages, but because
it's definitly the best for me. I think a computer language must match your
philosophy of thinking things ...


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Re: Fun survey! (was: Re: An admittedly biased Ada/C++ comparison, by Ed Schonberg)

[bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!tamsun.tam]

In <OBRY.92Oct26113622@cheesesteak.flash.bellcore.com> obry@flash.bellcore.com 
(Pascal Obry) writes:


My turn, 

>   1) What is your native language (ex. English, French, Spanish, et.al.)?

English

>   1bis) What computer language do you learn (in order) ?

DAP-II, FORTRAN II, FORTRAN IV, DAP-16, Algol-60, COBOL, 
Macro-11, PL/1, Plexus, Pascal, DCL, Ada, C, Perl, etc, etc,

>   2) What was the first computer language that you wrote programs in?

DAP-II.

>   3) What assembly/macro assembly language did you first learn?

DAP-II.

>   4) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
>   personal computer if cost is not a problem (you have unlimited dollars
>   to use)?

Rational Ada (if you have "unlimited dollars", the definition of
"personal computer" changes!)

>   5) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
>   personal computer if cost is a problem (you have to buy the cheapest)?

gcc


--Rob    spray@convex.com

Re: Fun survey! (was: Re: An admittedly biased Ada/C++ comparison, by Ed Schonberg)

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After looking at several responses to the survey, I felt that my gray (white!) 
hair was beginning to show, so

 1) What is your native language (ex. English, French, Spanish, et.al.)

     English, with a distinct Pennsylvania Dutch accent, which surfaces
     every once in a while.

 1b) What computer language did you learn (in order) ?

     FORTRAN (Note no II,..), Burroughs 205 machine code, Fortran IV, PL/360,
     Algol-W, Lisp, Pascal, C (ick), Modula-2, Ada (and smatterings of Smalltal
k,
     Snobol, Scheme, Eiffel, Turing)

 2) What was the first computer language that you wrote programs in?

     If Burroughs 205 machine code doesn't count, then its Fortran IV. The
     weird thing is, I remember the program:  For k = 1, 2, ..., determine
     the values of n when n! contains k*n digits in its base 10 expansion.

 3) What assembly/macro assembly language did you first learn?

     BAL (S/360 assembler)

 4) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
    personal computer if cost is not a problem (you have unlimited dollars
    to use)?

      Rational Ada, of course

 5) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
    personal computer if cost is a problem (you have to buy the cheapest)?

      Meridian Ada

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Re: Fun survey! (was: Re: An admittedly biased Ada/C++ comparison, by Ed Schonberg)

[Val Kartchner]

  1) What is your native language (ex. English, French, Spanish, et.al.)
 
	English (American, Western, Utah)

  1b) What computer language did you learn (in order) ?

	BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, 6502 assembly, JCL (Harris job control),
	C, DCL (VAX/VMS command language), VAX-11 Macro (assembly),
	Pascal, LISP, Prolog, Ada, U*X shell (various), 68000 assembly,
	C++.

  2) What was the first computer language that you wrote programs in?

	BASIC

  3) What assembly/macro assembly language did you first learn?

	6502 assembly

  4) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
     personal computer if cost is not a problem (you have unlimited dollars
     to use)?

	Comeau C++

  5) To your personal knowledge, what compiler would you buy for your
     personal computer if cost is a problem (you have to buy the cheapest)?
 
	G++

  6) (Not included, but should have been.)  What languages do you have
     for your computer?

	SAS/C 6.0, G++

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