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Date: 3 Sep 93 03:03:45 GMT
From: seas.gwu.edu!mfeldman@uunet.uu.net  (Michael Feldman)
Subject: Re: Computational scientists ignoring and ignored by Ada
Message-ID: <1993Sep3.030345.22391@seas.gwu.edu>
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In article <264rob$u3t@info2.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> paus@ifr.luftfahrt.uni-stutt
gart.de writes:
>In article <1993Sep1.142413.6105@sei.cmu.edu> wellerd@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu  
>(David Weller) writes:
>> I think it's a shame that Verdix wasn't
>> the "first kid on the block" to provide us with an early version
>> of protected records (which is, to a limited extent, what the
>> special features of MP-Ada do).
>
>We are using the Verdix compiler on a SiliconGraphics for about a
>year now. From what I have experienced I would not even expect Verdix
>to be the second or third or ... kid. They are neither able to provide
>a standard ISO math library nor are they able to provide a POSIX
>interface to the operating system. As long as they do not come up
>with these simple things I won't dare to dream of any 9X features.
>
Sigh...when I first starting dealing with Verdix in 1986 I thought they
had a real edge. In the last few years I've had a feeling that they were
losing their edge. This confirms it. It also tends to confirm my uneasy
feeling that they really don't care.

Mike Feldman