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, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3d6f33a5d75c89f0 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin Condic Subject: Re: The press strikes again... Date: 1999/11/11 Message-ID: <382AEF3D.9DB18975@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 547373437 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <80er1v$nj$1@news.ime.net> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: condicma@pwflcom Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Steve O'Neill wrote: > "Another problem with replacing all 1553 with Fibre Channel is software > compatibility, says George Meares, vice president of research and > development at VMIC. Currently there are neither Fibre Channel devices > designed to work with the Ada programming language,, (sic) nor is there any > interest, he adds." The dumb part about this statement is that *nobody* designs a device to work with a programming language. The device just does what it does and you have to program around that. Do people design communication devices specifically to be programmed in C? COBOL? Forth? If what they meant was that nobody has build any commercially available Ada software to control this device - that's a different issue. But that's just a matter of funding someone to write the code. (Something we do all the time!) The statement makes it sound like somehow or other Ada is inadequate for doing the job. MDC -- Marin David Condic If you hurry you can, for a short time only, still find me at: Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** Visit my web page at: http://www.mcondic.com/