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,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108abf,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108abf,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Date: 2000/01/15 Message-ID: <3880C8EC.37B66494@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 573064828 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <387C8859.621FA20B@netscape.net> <387CC1C0.4C57E34C@quadruscorp.com> <387CEE4A.3965@Ganymede.com> <387F8E50.11D27E14@quadruscorp.com> <85oclj$nbp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 15 Jan 2000 19:22:49 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,rec.aviation.military Date: 2000-01-15T19:22:49+00:00 List-Id: Ed Falis wrote: > I can't think of any Ada compiler that went that far, though. All > "extensions" I'm aware of have either been domain-oriented packages > (encouraged by the standard), or implementation-defined pragmas > (allowed by the language). DEC Ada featured mostly the former in its > Starlet package that enabled access to OS facilities, much as the > POSIX/Ada binding enabled access to POSIX compliant OS's. > I don't think I've seen anything in recent years that actually provided syntactic extensions to the language. Virtually all "extensions" have been in the form of either pragmas or packages. However, I seem to recall an early version of the RR compiler that provided some syntactic extensions in the area of I/O because generic packages were not yet implemented. If memory serves, early versions of the Telesoft Ada compiler did something similar. (And I'm still holding a grudge against that compiler for a whole variety of reasons. I'll bet I'm not the only one! ;-) But the important thing to note is that neither of those compilers had been validated and they were very careful not to actually call themselves "Ada" directly to keep from violating the trademark. MDC -- ============================================================= Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - 1.800.555.3393 1015-116 Atlantic Boulevard, Atlantic Beach, FL 32233 http://www.quadruscorp.com/ m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Capitalism without failure is like religion without sin." -- Allan Meltzer, Economist =============================================================