From: tmoran@bix.com (Tom Moran)
Subject: Re: What is ADA?
Date: 1999/02/23
Date: 1999-02-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36d2fc64.114800@news.pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36D2A554.88EF1F69@Maths.UniNe.CH
>To be clear: large programs, not small. If your program is
>less than 10'000 lines, some compilers will refuse to compile
>it: "Error at line 9702: End-of-file found. No serious
>usage of Ada. No object file produced; please add stuff
>and retry.".
Another feature of Ada is the official validation suite. If a
compiler doesn't pass it, for instance if it didn't compile
procedure p is begin null;end p;
as a legitimate Ada program, that compiler would fail validation and
could not be called a "validated" Ada compiler.
P.S. My personal sense of humor doesn't include teasing newcomers who
may not realize their leg is being pulled.
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-02-22 0:00 What is ADA? Corvus
1999-02-21 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Corvus
1999-02-22 0:00 ` dennison
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-02-22 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-02-22 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Michael Young
1999-02-24 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
[not found] ` <36d52fe9.8491568@news.geccs.gecm.com>
1999-02-26 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-02-22 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Tom Moran [this message]
1999-02-23 0:00 ` bill
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-02-23 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-02-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
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1997-05-10 0:00 David Chang
1997-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-05-13 0:00 ` Alan Brain
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