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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e3feb606f668a7c1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Why should hackers love Ada. (Re: Ada 95 based RTOS) Date: 2000/02/23 Message-ID: <38B41432.88D7389F@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 588905261 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <88ilp7$bcm$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38ADCA44.3B91BF6F@averstar.com> <88qli0$gvr$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <38B2A2A1.FDCDDFE7@honeywell.com> <88ugrd$7j7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <890ght$bih1@ftp.kvaerner.com> <38B3EA94.E3AB4929@maths.unine.ch> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 23 Feb 2000 17:10:37 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-23T17:10:37+00:00 List-Id: Ehud Lamm wrote: > > Hi > > I have a rough outline for a memo titled "Why should hackers love Ada." > Beacuse of lack of time, it is yet to be finished. If someone wants to > cooperate - let me konw > In some ways, you'd think "hackers" should be fascinated with Ada. It provides all sorts of facilities to do bit-twiddling and low level access to the hardware. Tasks seem to provide ample opportunity for playing with sophisticated OS or OS-like features. The control of the representation of data down to bits, endianness, etc. ought to appeal to people who like to get control of the bare machine. But I suppose those who would hang the moniker "hacker" upon themselves really want assembly language - only without the inconvenience of having to learn a new one every time new hardware comes out. Hence the popularity of things like C with hackers. 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 ***PLEASE REMOVE THE "-NOSPAM" PART OF MY RETURN ADDRESS*** Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Because that's where they keep the money." -- Willie Sutton when asked why he robbed banks. =============================================================