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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a1ce307c10055549 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-14 11:51:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.infostrada.it!news-out.tin.it!news-in.tin.it!news2.tin.it.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3DFBB3E2.7060405@tin.it> From: GianLuigi Piacentini User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada References: <3DF1615C.7AAAC86E@adaworks.com> <3DF1B042.6603DDDE@easystreet.com> <3DF2A483.EC512CDF@adaworks.com> <8db3d6c8.0212091445.12594821@posting.google.com> <3DF628C4.7090607@cogeco.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 19:51:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.104.174.207 X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@tin.it X-Trace: news2.tin.it 1039895498 80.104.174.207 (Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:51:38 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:51:38 MET Organization: TIN Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:31826 Date: 2002-12-14T19:51:38+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > .... But at > least a nice, big, juicy library of some general purpose code might start > offering lots of leverage. Containers at minimum. Probably some nice math > and statistics packages. Maybe some text processing facilities (like XML?) > All that sort of thing would be relatively straightforward to build and make > portable. ... I agree with this. I think that every language system should come with some sort of this stuff, otherwise it would be difficult to come out from the language specialized niche, if any. Beside this, I'm not aware of any Ada porting to general purpose microprocessors, they do only C, with very few exception (not Ada). But was Ada not intended for embedded systems ? Is that difficult to port Ada in such environments ? Just my .02 euro arguments ... G.L. Piacentini