From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: ada83 or 95?
Date: 1999/02/25
Date: 1999-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Feb25.074206.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7b2lug$fh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com
In article <7b2lug$fh$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com writes:
> In article <1999Feb24.031134.1@eisner>,
> Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
>> There are a few platforms for which only Ada83 compilers
>> are available, so that is the main reason to restrict
>> yourself to Ada83 features for new work.
>>
>> Larry Kilgallen
>
> Larry constantly likes to remind us that there is no Ada 95
> for obsolete systems like VAX/VMS, but the fact is that
> there are Ada 95 compilers available for all commonly used
> current systems, and there are several machines for which
> only Ada 95 is available, and Ada 83 is not available!
I believe MVS also falls into the category, aside from Tuck's
Ada-to-C translator.
Certainly VAX is "currently used" although sales of new models
have declined as would be expected.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-24 0:00 ada83 or 95? Corvus
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Hans Marqvardsen
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-02-25 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
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