From: Klaus Wyss <klaus.wyss@ubs.com>
Subject: Re: Limitations of Ada
Date: 1996/07/22
Date: 1996-07-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <31F35718.7BAA@ubs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 31EF79A3.812@freenet.scri.fsu.edu
The Quelisher wrote:
>
> With all this discussion about programming different things ins Ada, I
> got to thinking......Just what are the limitations of the language? I
> mean, is it versitile enough to program a Windows program then turn right
> back around and make a kernel?
>
> Just letting curiosity get the better of me...
> --
There are no limitations, as long as you stay in the in the nice clean
ADA world.
If you go to the real dirty computer world, with all the C libraries
(Windows,X11,DCE, DB access .... ) you get a lot of limitations.
For example if your ADA is not based on pthreads you run into problems
with DCE.
Klaus Wyss
UBS Switzerland
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-07-19 0:00 Limitations of Ada The Quelisher
1996-07-20 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-07-21 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1996-07-24 0:00 ` David Kristola
1996-07-24 0:00 ` Ron Thompson
1996-07-26 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-29 0:00 ` Byron B. Kauffman
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Things that go BOOM (was Re: Limitations of Ada) David Kristola
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-08-12 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-07-25 0:00 ` Limitations of Ada Keith Thompson
1996-07-29 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-07-22 0:00 ` Klaus Wyss [this message]
1996-07-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-24 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
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1996-07-29 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Kazimir Majorinc
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-07-30 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Fraser Wilson
1996-07-31 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Spasmo
1996-08-08 0:00 ` mpost
1996-08-01 0:00 ` Bob Kitzberger
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Jack W Scheible
1996-08-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-08-03 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1996-08-05 0:00 ` Jack W Scheible
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