From: Dan Nagle <dnagle@erols.com>
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/10
Date: 1999-05-10T19:10:23+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <37372EDB.9D9E8856@erols.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca
Hello,
Siamak Kaveh wrote:
>
> Hello Everybody,
>
> Accepting that Ada is one of the best available programming languages, the
> following question comes to my mind: Why BIG PLAYERS of computer industry
> (IBM, HP, COMPAQ(Digital), CRAY, Microsoft, SUN...) don't develop their
> native ADA compiler?
I don't know about the rest, but the reason Cray dropped their Ada
was because there wasn't that much demand for it in the Cray market
(of course, large scale number crunching 99.99% done in Fortran).
The idea originally was that one would simulate the missile's
processor, including the program it was running, along with the
airframe stresses, CFD, etc. The program running in the missile's
processor was, of course, written in Ada. So your Fortran code
would call an Ada routine to ask "what are you going to do now?"
during the simulation.
I'm surprised to see Cray listed with the "Big Boys"; I don't think
Cray ever got much above $700 M - $800 M per year. Now, they're
part of SGI.
<snip rest of post>
--
Cheers!
Dan Nagle dnagle@erols.com
Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.
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1999-05-10 0:00 A question for my personal knowledge Siamak Kaveh
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Sam
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Werner Pachler
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Dan Nagle [this message]
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Chris
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-18 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike Yoder
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Steve
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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