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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best* Date: 1998/12/08 Message-ID: <1998Dec8.174032.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420215114 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <3666F5A4.2CCF6592@maths.unine.ch> X-Trace: news.decus.org 913156836 20885 KILGALLEN [192.67.173.2] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , eachus@spectre.mitre.org (Robert I. Eachus) writes: > In article to.reply@read.my.sig (Rick Thorne) writes: > > > Honestly, this is irrelevent. Whether or not we as a handful of people in > > the profession like Ada has little to do with the trends. > > Then let's look where the real trends are. When someone asks "Is > XXX a dead language, they are not at all concerned with whether or not > there is a small cabal of programmers still using the language, they > are concerned with the answers to three questions: > > 1) Are compilers available for popular and currently available hardware > and operating systems? > > 2) Is the language itself maintained? > > 3) Will compilers be available for future hardware and software > releases? > > Let's put a few languages through those filters: > > Ada95 Algol68 C C++ Cobol Fortran Java Pascal PL/I > 1) Yes Few Yes Most Most Some Most Some Few > 2) Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Soon No No > 3) Yes No Yes Most Most Few Yes Few Few I have yet to find supported Ada95 compilers for: MVS Popular, Currently available OS400 Popular, Currently available HP-MPE Currently available VAX/VMS Popular, Currently available Macintosh 68K Popular Alpha NT Currently available Giving Ada95 an answer of "Yes" for question 1 seems dubious to me. Larry Kilgallen