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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-24 12:17:01 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.aset.psu.edu!not-for-mail From: Robert Spooner Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 15:11:16 -0400 Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing Message-ID: <3EA836D4.1020004@psu.edu> References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304240446.493ca906@posting.google.com> <3EA7E0E3.8020407@crs4.it> <9fa75d42.0304240950.45114a39@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: nat4.arl.psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: f04n12.cac.psu.edu 1051211477 53420 128.118.40.103 (24 Apr 2003 19:11:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@f04n12.cac.psu.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 19:11:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en,de,fr-FR Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62615 comp.object:61839 comp.lang.ada:36501 misc.misc:13649 Date: 2003-04-24T15:11:16-04:00 List-Id: soft-eng wrote: > Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote in message news:<3EA7E0E3.8020407@crs4.it>... > >>[ FUT comp.lang.ada ] >> >>soft-eng wrote: >> >> >>>But if you >>>had to develop device drivers for a living, and if >>>the language was truly your choice, would you chose Ada as >>>the language? >> >>Yes. >> > > > Hmmm. Very interesting. > > But I am sure you folks couldn't come up with some similar > pronouncements for AI as well. How many people out there who have > years and years of Artificial Intelligence experience and > who really think Ada is the best language for this purpose? > > Any at all? Yes. It's 10X the speed of lisp for our application. -- Robert L. Spooner Registered Professional Engineer Associate Research Engineer Intelligent Control Systems Department Applied Research Laboratory Phone: (814) 863-4120 The Pennsylvania State University FAX: (814) 863-7841 P. O. Box 30 State College, PA 16804-0030 rls19@psu.edu