From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,6deb3e1ddefb099 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.204.143.145 with SMTP id v17mr1060489bku.7.1337373396812; Fri, 18 May 2012 13:36:36 -0700 (PDT) Path: e27ni11788bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 22:35:11 +0200 Organization: cbb software GmbH Message-ID: <1992ibk3vixd0$.18ri3cfm0vnyu.dlg@40tude.net> References: <3db3e683-8054-4d69-a3f4-8afa0b2b14c3@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de NNTP-Posting-Host: 4RFYTQ6jM/dAKFJoI0fUkg.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: 40tude_Dialog/2.0.15.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 2012-05-18T22:35:11+02:00 List-Id: On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:46 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > Windows 8 all new apps development is/will be in HTML5 and > Javascript. It will be what Microsoft decide it to be in. BTW, chances are high that Window 8 will not make it. Customers tend to refuse MS OSes when advantages are unclear, e.g. Me, Vista. XP had it very hard in the beginning. > This is the new world order of software engineering. After 50 years > of computer science and programming languages research, the world has > decided it will be Javascript and HTML5. No. Due to opening a new market the technology (rather lack of) is returning to the point where it was 20-30 years ago. Such retreats always happen when there is no pressure to improve quality or safety. In 10 years software development will recover things it managed to forget now. Not for the first time. Remember how multi-tasking was forgotten when PCs came? Microsoft "discovered" that decades later. > If someone can make an Ada to Javascript compiler, may be there > is still a chance? Nope. Machine in the hands of a savage is scrap metal. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de