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: 103376,5f8432149982f35e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fca1b,5f8432149982f35e X-Google-Attributes: gidfca1b,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Ada and QNX Date: 2000/10/16 Message-ID: <39EACF76.CEB31ADE@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 681993110 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <8r1i82$ri3$1@kujawiak.man.lodz.pl> <8r5pe5$h70$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8FCDFD7EEnopenopena@63.209.170.206> <39EA6305.CD5CFE1F@ix.netcom.com> <39EA9161.6469DDE2@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 16 Oct 2000 11:48:45 +0100, hilbert.unine.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.os.qnx Date: 2000-10-16T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Igor Kovalenko: > Oh, yeah. I bought Ada book some years ago. So many capabilities. Couple > hundred pages worth of docs printed in small-font. If someone manages to > a) write a good compiler for that (portable and with runtime-efficient > code) Ok, this is done: GNAT. > and b) somehow teach programmers to understand the whole damn > thing, then yes it might resurrect. Even then, I have doubts personally. > Ada is way too high and abstract to be good for system level programming > (even C++ is too high). If you can do high and abstract things, it doesn't mean that you can't do system level programming. Ada provides it, and it is easy. Maybe you make a confusion with Pascal which doesn't provide it by default. > And yet it is not as portable and distributable > as Java to be good for new-age applications. Plus, it smells too much > like Pascal and that turns me down immediately. It's a personal taste - nothing to discuss. However C (and decendents) and Pascal share some archaisms, like the lack of true modularity or obligation of enclosing every group of more than 1 instruction by '{','}' (resp. "begin","end" in Pascal). > Of course, those are > just my humble personal opinions, I know that others will disagree and I > don't say that those opinions are absolute right. > In any case I don't think that pissing into C++ pool will do any good > for Ada. At best it might just serve you as a good way to kill time > until a) and b) is done. Maybe your conditions are more advanced than you think - and yes, it is a very good way to kill time! ______________________________________________________ Gautier -- http://members.nbci.com/gdemont/gsoft.htm