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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e688afdbf4b6072 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen, LJK Software) Subject: Re: Calling Ada from C Date: 1995/03/29 Message-ID: <1995Mar29.110030.9521@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100540708 references: <3kp8il$avh@linus.mitre.org> <3ksanp$bab@theopolis.orl.mmc.com><1995Mar24.121422.9469@eisner> organization: DECUServe newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-03-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: > DEC made the decision to build the DEC Ada run-time into VMS, so > that Ada programs do not pay a large penalty and can be freely mixed > with other DEC supported languages. They might have decided to do it > otherwise had they no already integrated PL/I in the same way. Not just PL/I, but Fortran, Dibol, Cobol, C, Pascal RPG and Basic have this support "built in" for VMS systems. Aside from common debugger support, however, the method in which these are "built-in" uses only techniques which are also available to a third party vendor to add a compiler of their own choice. DEC will not take care of distributing the "Run-Time Library" image to every VMS system in the world, but that is easily countered by a vendor allowing those who have the compiler to freely distributed the "Run-Time Library" image along with the software they produce with that compiler. In fact a few years ago DEC authorized their own compiler customers to do that as an additional distribution strategy for cases with version skew issues. Larry Kilgallen