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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-23 09:31:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: mcq95@earthlink.net (Marc A. Criley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Date: 23 Apr 2003 09:31:33 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <254c16a.0304230831.38a1e30e@posting.google.com> References: <3E5C7033.BD5DC462@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0302260618.7506cba7@posting.google.com> <3E5CF5C6.84822F57@adaworks.com> <8qkczsAcGcn+Ew83@nildram.co.uk> <3EA04A1E.CAFC1FEF@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0304221126.7112b7d5@posting.google.com> <3EA62B54.49580F4F@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.158.183.115 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1051115493 11898 127.0.0.1 (23 Apr 2003 16:31:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 23 Apr 2003 16:31:33 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62560 comp.object:61691 comp.lang.ada:36416 misc.misc:13608 Date: 2003-04-23T16:31:33+00:00 List-Id: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com>... > Richard Riehle wrote in message news:<3EA62B54.49580F4F@adaworks.com>... > > > drive the move to interfacing with C. Also, Ada was, > > and is, designed to permit a programmer to get to a very > > low-level of programming, even to the machine code > > level, if it seems appropriate. > > How many times in your whole life have you done this? Uh, like, lots. > Or known of other people who have done this? You mean the various coworkers of mine over the years? > And how many instances do you know when this > was done by interfacing with C? Only when having to hook up to code written by others--whatever we did, we did in Ada. The only times we ever had to dip into C was when some supplied function was defined as a macro and we had to put it into a function wrapper so that it could be called. Marc A. Criley Quadrus Corporation www.quadruscorp.com