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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,baa7d08a8fadc6ea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-20 18:13:26 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!news.dfn.de!swiss.ans.net!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Delphi and SGI's GNAT Ada access of C++ class libraries Date: 20 Nov 1994 20:13:26 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <3aovo6$nni@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <199411200820.IAA02428@stout.entertain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Date: 1994-11-20T20:13:26-06:00 List-Id: In article <199411200820.IAA02428@stout.entertain.com>, Colin James III wrote: >What is the programming language Delphi? If it's new, it's so new that >there is no comp.lang.delphi newsgroup. (Is this Oracle's way of making >a bad pun?) > Delphi is Borland's new app builder. It is pretty awesome. >Regarding SGI using GNAT to access SGI's C++ class libraries, so what. >Eiffel has *always* been able to access C libraries directly; and Eiffel >3 (with concurrent processes matching Ada-83 tasks) has absolutely all >the functionality (and more) than Ada-9x. What SGI is claiming is in >fact no big deal; it's been done before. Also Eiffel is infinitely more >portable because there are more ANSI C/C++ compilers than hardware >platforms supported by Ada-83/9x. > Infinitely? Gee, I guess it's time to switch to Eiffel. Powerful applications in less than a microsecond. >The Ada community should also really question the necessity, propriety, >and usefulness of having comp.lang.ada or info-ada@vm1.nodak.edu forums >because Ada is going away. Oh yes, Don Reifer trumphets that AJPO is >going to have something as a Turbo Ada from some vendor as Borland at >some price as $99 per copy, but even that won't save Ada. Reason: the >many other ills of government sponsorship documented by Gregory Aharonian >and Ralph Crafts. Note: those writers actually underestimate how badly >government is broken throughout; it's endemic and magnitudes worse than >they (or most readers of this) realize. > Greg Aharonian, now _there's_ a bastion of solid journalism. Yup. >Analogy is the weakest form of argument. However the cutest analogy I can >come up with is this: Teen Ada is to Eiffel as is Teen OS/2 to Windows NT. I rather like that analogy. I never thought I'd thank Colin in public for something (not that I could send him e-mail :-) >Stop wasting your time with Ada, folks; it is too far gone to redeem. >We will see, won't we. > *Whew* I for one am glad that person is abandoning Ada and going to the Eiffel camp. One less raving lunatic as I see it :-) -- Proud (and vocal) member of Team Ada! (and Team OS/2) ||This is not your Ada -- Very Cool. Doesn't Suck. || father's Ada For all sorts of interesting Ada tidbits, run the command: ||________________ "finger dweller@starbase.neosoft.com | more" (or e-mail with "finger" as subj.) Just another dull, stodgy, non-creative developer who uses Ada.