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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-22 13:40:15 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news2.near.net!das-news2.harvard.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!riehler From: riehler@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Richard Riehle) Subject: Re: Reaching traditional engineering Message-ID: <1994Dec22.154905.4777@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: AddaWorks Software Engineering References: <3d03j7$q21@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <3d9kf9$f1n@source.asset.com> <3dbjtq$kfl@earth.usa.net> Date: Thu, 22 Dec 1994 15:49:05 EST Date: 1994-12-22T15:49:05-05:00 List-Id: In article <3dbjtq$kfl@earth.usa.net> intros@earth (Introspect Technologies) writes: >Kevin Weise (weisek@source.asset.com) wrote: >: Well, I have to respond to this one. WADR, Robert, my wife has been doing >: benchmarking of various Ada compilers on various target platforms for >: some time now. My discussions with her lead me to conclude that the >: Cray Ada effort was basically a token effort, possibly just done in >: response to, or in anticipation of, a contract for a DoD contractor. > Ah, yes. The famous "checkbox" compiler. I have had fun with this one too. It seems that some hardware vendors in th eighties built minimally validatable compilers so they could enter a "checkmark" in the box on some form that said "Validated Ada." They then failed to give any serious support to Ada, believing they had fulfilled their obligation. My experience was with Tandem with their homebrew compiler. No one ever took it seriously, and Tandem is now without a validated compiler. They seem to have decided that the DoD market is not important. Or did they simply see that the DoD was not taking Ada seriously, either. Many of these hardware vendors no longer have a direct interest in Ada. This seems to include HP, IBM, Tandem, among others. But perhaps we should simply say "Good Riddance," since checkbox compilers did as much to damage Ada's reputation as anything. Richard Riehle AdaWorks Software Engineering -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." Jessica, "Who Killed Roger Rabbit" "I'm not bad. My compilers just behave that way." Ada, in a wistful moment. --------------------------------------------------------------------------