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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, LOTS_OF_MONEY,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d569080889afd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Dan Nagle Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge. Date: 1999/05/10 Message-ID: <37372EDB.9D9E8856@erols.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476283856 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: qRPwN/mVnN+kQ1/rNDLosaigUkPnM1XM5M3OhyqJxuk= Organization: Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc. Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: dnagle@erols.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 May 1999 19:10:23 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-10T19:10:23+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Cheers! Dan Nagle dnagle@erols.com Purple Sage Computing Solutions, Inc.