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=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 25 Sep 92 21:04:09 GMT From: caen!hellgate.utah.edu!fcom.cc.utah.edu!val@uunet.uu.net (Val Kartchner) Subject: Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community Message-ID: <1992Sep25.210409.23219@fcom.cc.utah.edu> List-Id: jcc@well.sf.ca.us (John Christopher Copella) writes: : : I've always felt a mandate was inappropriate. The DoD should simply : leak a clever story, which could go something like this: : : "Ada was not developed by Ichbiah, Firth, et. al as the result of : a conscious engineering effort. In fact, Ada was hacked together : by a couple of guys who needed a real-time OS for their PDP-8. The : real-time OS was needed so they could play games, and do a little : programming on the side..." A story alone will not change attitudes about Ada. There is a big difference between saying that you've written an operating system in a language and actually writing a commercially viable operating system in a language. A major superiority claim can be made on behalf of C's real-time ability over Ada's real-time ability in that families of commerically viable (meaning actually FAST) operating systems have been written using C. While it may be theoretically possible (ha ha) to do so in Ada, it hasn't been done. C++, C's successor, has also been used to write System V Release 4 on Unix which is already a commercially viable and successful product. -- |======================== The previous was my opinion =========///============| | "AMIGA: The computer for the creative mind." (tm) Commodore /// Weber State | | "Macintosh: The computer for the rest of us."(tm) Apple \\\/// University | |=================== val@csulx.weber.edu ==================\///=== Ogden, UT =|