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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10c950,90121986704b5776 X-Google-Attributes: gid10c950,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Dr E. Buxbaum" Subject: Re: Yet another stupid language war (was: ... the only languages you need!!) Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: <345A50BE.74A9@le.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286175886 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <3456e71b.3833189@news.mindspring.com> <3458D116.2D34@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <63anc7$75p$1@darla.visi.com> Organization: University of Leicester (PCFS User) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.lang.pascal.ansi-iso,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Peter Seebach wrote: > If > you want to use compilers for similar languaes, and complain about the > portability of C, we get to taunt you about every implementation that's > ever claimed to be similar to Ada, too. You won't have much luck there. There is an extensive validation suite which Ada compilers have to pass. Remember, Ada is a US goverment invention to make sure that different maschines can run the same programs. If you have a validated Ada compiler, you can be reasonable sure that it will compile a correct Ada program out of the box and that the compiled program will perform the same way as on the maschine it was written on. I personally know of only one other language for which that is true: TeX.