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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news From: Anonymous Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? References: <4xAKn.4703$Z6.1197@edtnps82> Message-Id: <20100525114157.1E8F31A758E@www.ecn.org> Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 13:41:57 +0200 (CEST) Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11961 Date: 2010-05-25T13:41:57+02:00 List-Id: > BTW, do you know what language Ada is written in? I'd guess C and asm. If you do some research you can find an incredible web site discussing the Ada competition in some depth. And here on this very list we have some of the people who participated in that competition who can surely answer your question. I can tell you this for certain: the IBM implementation was not written in C, at least not on an IBM machine. IBM didn't have a viable C compiler until much later. Furthermore, assembler is the language of choice on IBM platforms. It may have been written elsewhere and cross-compiled though. I'll be interested to see answers to your question, thanks for asking it!