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,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/10 Message-ID: <3A0C0BEE.347F659C@acm.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 692040184 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BC243.4A9CFC90@cadwin.com> X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 10 Nov 2000 14:53:50 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Quadrus Corporation Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-10T14:53:50+00:00 List-Id: You are correct about the Windows/PC/C situation. While you *can* develop apps in Ada for this platform, you are swimming against the tide in many respects. The OS interface is C, there are tons of C/C++ oriented development tools, etc. From a market standpoint, you can't afford to ignore the Windows environment. If you're going to develop there, you'll have to know C (to some extent) just to use the OS. If you want to get to market ahead of your competition, you will need all the leverage you can get - which is generally C/C++ tools. Its hard to fight against that. MDC Nicolas Brunot wrote: > For software companies like ours, 99% of our applications world is Windows and C components. > If we want to go on writing 99% of our code in Ada, Ada must bring great benefits (It does), > but it cannot suffer any weakness in any field towards C, and unfortunately there are still some, and > they have to disappear. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: 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/ "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke ======================================================================