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: 103376,f495c7652c09dd8c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Al Christians Subject: Re: Does this model work ? Date: 1999/05/15 Message-ID: <373E24C3.D77A6837@easystreet.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 478339084 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <373e38e2.31311363@news2.ibm.net> <7hhj6q$cjn$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <01be9ee1$eca9be10$022a6282@dieppe> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: news14.ispnews.com 926819475 206.103.58.48 (Sat, 15 May 1999 21:51:15 EDT) Organization: Trillium Resources Corporation MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:51:15 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-05-15T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Pascal Obry wrote: > > I've not use a language yet that it more portable than Ada. > Here's a hypothetical question that I hope you don't think too impertinent, and I would be most interested in your learned opinion: How much of the Ada source code available on your web site can be expected to run without change on a 64-bit machine, under a 64-bit OS, compiled with a 64-bit Ada compiler, when all of these become economically available? (within a couple of years, I hope) If Ada code has a portabilitiy advantage, shouldn't Ada advocates be planning to advance the language's status as the world struggles with the shift to 64 bit machines over the next few years? (32-bit PC's from Intel were on the street in 1987, but 32-bit software only became the norm around 1997) Al