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: <3880CCC7.261957BC@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 573077103 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <387C8859.621FA20B@netscape.net> <387CC1C0.4C57E34C@quadruscorp.com> <387CEE4A.3965@Ganymede.com> <387F8E50.11D27E14@quadruscorp.com> <85oclj$nbp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <387FCA73.3A61@Ganymede.com> <85ok6v$iee$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 15 Jan 2000 19:39:15 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,rec.aviation.military Date: 2000-01-15T19:39:15+00:00 List-Id: Keith Willshaw wrote: > > More liley its DEC's own compiler he's complaing > about. Their Fortran compilers had lots of extensions > that were far from ANSI standard Fortran. > But DEC's Ada compiler was validated and, in my experience, very portable. You had to stay away from Starlet and other similar compiler provided packages if you wanted to port, but if you did so, the port was usually just a matter of recompilation. DEC had one of the better Ada compilers out there and I am unaware of any extensions to the syntax of the language within their compiler. DEC's Fortran compilers often had language extensions (anybody remember Fortran-10 for the DECSystem 10?) which enabled them to utilize system dependent features and I know that porting their Fortran somewhere else could be painful. But I don't recall that they ever did anything similar with Ada. 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 =============================================================