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: 103376,6b6619eb9cada212 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Powell Subject: Re: Help me to chose between ADA 95 and C++ Date: 1999/12/21 Message-ID: <385F9556.9498AA67@rdel.co.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 564272543 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01bf37fb$a91afb60$0564a8c0@IS-D2D04C.test> <829rbv$a8m$1@nntp6.atl.mindspring.net> <01bf3e32$0b9dc880$022a6282@dieppe> <385112AE.7E2CFA9@rdel.co.uk> <833d8i$sjf$1@nntp5.atl.mindspring.net> <38566835.B4A2D48@rdel.co.uk> <83na60$8lo$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: postmaster@rdel.co.uk X-Trace: rdel.co.uk 945788271 15684 172.16.10.14 (21 Dec 1999 14:57:51 GMT) Organization: Blackbox Software UK Ltd Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Dec 1999 14:57:51 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-12-21T14:57:51+00:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > In article <38566835.B4A2D48@rdel.co.uk>, > Chris Powell wrote: > > > As for compiler publishers, the support we receive for our Ada > > environment is expensive and unhelpful. > > Perhaps this is due to your failure to choose a vendor > carefully. There are definitely Ada compilers available with > excellent support. Certainly lack of support has nothing to > do with Ada, and everything to do with your choice! > > > The Ada language requires a more complex compiler > > Nope, that's simply false > > > which has led to far more compiler bugs than C++ > > If your Ada compiler has lots of bugs, again, perhaps you chose > the wrong compiler! > > > and we find more of them because the developer base for Ada is > > so much smaller than that of C++. > > More likely it is a basic quality problem, and that again comes > down to your choice of compilers. > > > And the compiler is so slow! > > There is no reason for an Ada compiler to be slow. If your > compiler is slow, again you chose the wrong one. Sounds like > you need to be quite a bit more careful in your procurement > decisions for Ada compilers! Can you give me any advice regarding the compiler/development environment we should we be using? We do host development under Solaris and cross compile to a PowerPC embedded target running VxWorks. Thanks for your help: hopefully you won't suggest the compiler we are already using! It would also be useful if you could identify compilers/environments which you know to be slow and/or buggy... Cheers; Chris.