From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
Subject: Re: "C" vrs ADA
Date: Tue, 25-Aug-87 12:35:26 EDT [thread overview]
Date: Tue Aug 25 12:35:26 1987
Message-ID: <3755@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36@sarin.UUCP
In article <36@sarin.UUCP> eric@sarin.UUCP (Eric Beser sys admin) writes:
>
> Working in an industrial environment, and having used Ada, I do not see
>how the "size" of a compiler matters in producing code that is efficient,
>that is easily maintainable, and documentable....
>
> ... Toolsets are now usable. In fact, you can buy a
>validate Ada compiler for the IBM PC-XT (Meridian) that does not require
>extra memory, is somewhat expensive (700.00), but not the $3000.00 that
>the leading pc vendor charges.
Sounds really great. When does LightspeedAda come out for the Macintosh?
I'd like to fit the whole system on a 500Mbyte RAMdisk and be able to
recompile my programs and start them running in 3 seconds from editor
to application.
No? then I guess I'll have to stick with Borland's TurboAda, not quite
as good, of course, but you can't have everything. I consider any
compiler usable if it doesn't require an inordinate amount of time
to compile, where I define inordinate based on past experience
with other languages. Of course, it also helps if I don't need a full
page display terminal to understand a short segment of code.
(Verbose is NOT a synonym for rich.)
David Palmer
palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
...rutgers!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer
The opinions expressed are those of an 8000 year old Atlantuan
priestess named Mrla, and not necessarily those of her channel.
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Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1987-08-17 21:36 "C" vrs ADA Glen Harman
1987-08-18 14:49 ` spf
1987-08-19 17:03 ` "C" AND Ada Eugene Miya N.
1987-08-20 1:52 ` Richard Harter
1987-08-20 17:29 ` "C" AND Ada (epigram) David Palmer
1987-08-21 9:09 ` "C" AND Ada Kent Paul Dolan
1987-08-19 20:45 ` "C" vrs ADA ark
1987-08-20 20:10 ` Stephen 2. Williams
1987-08-21 0:19 ` Jef Poskanzer
1987-08-21 9:15 ` Webber
1987-08-21 1:04 ` R.A. Agnew
1987-08-21 15:27 ` spf
1987-08-23 0:35 ` Henry Spencer
1987-08-23 18:07 ` wyatt
1987-08-25 17:55 ` John Unekis
1987-08-25 18:57 ` David C. Albrecht
1987-08-27 16:32 ` Henry Spencer
1987-08-28 16:31 ` Renu Raman, Sun Microsystems
1987-08-28 15:51 ` Peter da Silva
1987-08-30 1:05 ` Rahul Dhesi
1987-08-31 13:55 ` sns
1987-09-04 16:51 ` VAX/VMS C Jim Sullivan
1987-08-18 15:17 ` "C" vrs ADA G.Gleason
1987-08-18 18:09 ` John Unekis
1987-08-21 12:07 ` Mr. Patrick J. Kelly Jr. GS-13
1987-08-21 13:00 ` steve
1987-08-21 14:04 ` Stefan M. Vorkoetter
1987-08-22 23:31 ` COBOL vs "C" vs ADA neubauer
1987-08-24 23:11 ` Dave Levenson
1987-08-25 19:18 ` FORTRAN vs COBOL vs Pascal vs C " Stephen the Greatest
1987-08-23 13:13 ` COBOL vrs Ada (was: Re: "C" vrs ADA) Kent Paul Dolan
1987-08-21 14:17 ` "C" vrs ADA M.P.Lindner
1987-08-21 15:10 ` Dave Haynie
1987-08-21 16:07 ` crowl
1987-08-22 2:44 ` hitchens
1987-08-27 18:53 ` jym
1987-08-22 14:31 ` Roy Smith
1987-08-26 16:17 ` Kurt Hoyt
1987-08-23 0:33 ` Henry Spencer
1987-08-18 18:43 ` Dave Haynie
1987-08-22 21:09 ` Eric Beser sys admin
1987-08-25 16:35 ` David Palmer [this message]
1987-08-26 14:21 ` spf
1987-08-28 0:49 ` peter
1987-09-03 20:03 ` R.A. Agnew
1987-08-26 3:38 ` Doug Gwyn
1987-08-26 19:32 ` Charles Simmons
1987-08-26 9:25 ` Randell Jesup
1987-08-26 15:40 ` M.P.Lindner
1987-08-27 17:44 ` Jeff Bartlett
1987-08-31 17:53 ` mpl
1987-09-01 22:03 ` Barry Margolin
1987-09-02 0:32 ` eric
1987-08-26 18:30 ` Dave Haynie
1987-08-29 6:25 ` Henry Spencer
1987-09-01 19:02 ` Jacob Gore
1987-09-02 14:09 ` stt
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1987-08-25 20:44 blackje%sungod.tcpip
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1987-08-28 12:33 ` kelly
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