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,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,39e272d357c68416 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Andreas Winckler Subject: Re: Is Apex dead as an environment for Ada & Java? Date: 1999/12/02 Message-ID: <38462BCA.88BDCBB4@gmx.de>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 555687887 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <11f733ec.57d88b68@usw-ex0107-042.remarq.com> <3844D7DB.BBE53FD9@gmx.de> <065f8722.4039674a@usw-ex0101-005.remarq.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: news-support@xlink.net X-Trace: kilbeggan.xlink.net 944122937 19934 194.121.221.60 (2 Dec 1999 08:22:17 GMT) Organization: - Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Dec 1999 08:22:17 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-02T08:22:17+00:00 List-Id: jim_snead wrote: > It sounds as if the Apex environment is locked into a single host > environment. No, it's not. Apex is available on many platforms and works well with plain Ada-code. Unfortunately we have lots of code which makes use of some VADS-specific things causing problems with other compilers. > So if you go to source code that was set up with a > particular operating system, you cannot modify anything > with another environment (say Solaris versus AIX). No, that's wrong. As long as you stay strictly with the Ada standard you're out of trouble. Greetings, AW -- --------------------------------------------------------- Andreas Winckler http://www.talknet.de/~andreas.winckler/ ICQ# : 28867366 "A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow"