From: Bill Greene <wrg@Ganymede.com>
Subject: Re: Project: FreeOS
Date: 2000/01/17
Date: 2000-01-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3883915C.56A@Ganymede.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vhi3drwe773.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no
Jan Kroken wrote:
> I disagree. Ada is a low level language, and should not be marketed
> as an alternative to Java, VB[0], Python, Perl, Lisp or other high
> level languages, ...
>
> As a one line summary: The language we're trying to replace is C.
Some would characterize Ada as a "wide-spectrum language." Certainly
you can program at the lowest level of abstraction in Ada. This is one
of the uses for which Ada was designed, and it was designed well!
But Ada can also be used as a high-level language. I certainly don't
see how Java or Visual Basic are high level languages and Ada is not.
IIRC, there was an Ada translator in the early 1980s (from
Carnegie-Mellon?) that generated LISP code as its intermediate
representation.
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2000-01-12 0:00 Project: FreeOS Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Juergen Pfeifer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Terry Sikes
2000-01-13 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Charles Hixson
2000-01-18 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Mario Klebsch
2000-01-20 0:00 ` Bryce Bardin
2000-01-22 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
[not found] ` <vhi3drwe773.fsf@grotte.ifi.uio.no>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Bill Greene [this message]
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
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