Re: Companies Only Offering Ada-95 Compilers

[Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>]

On Friday, May 18, 2012 3:35:11 PM UTC-5, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Fri, 18 May 2012 15:02:46 -0500, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote:
> 
> > This is the new world order of software engineering. After 50 years
> > of computer science and programming languages research, the world has
> > decided it will be Javascript and HTML5.
> 
> No. Due to opening a new market the technology (rather lack of) is
> returning to the point where it was 20-30 years ago. Such retreats always
> happen when there is no pressure to improve quality or safety.

Does this mean we'll be having PostScript -driven GUIs instead of this Frankenstein HTML5/CSS/Javascript monster? Because the way I see it PS has the advantage of having been designed to address the HTML5/CSS issues (i.e. PS was intended for layout, whereas HTML was not)?

Either way, I hope HTML5 dies.

> In 10 years software development will recover things it managed to forget
> now. Not for the first time. Remember how multi-tasking was forgotten when
> PCs came? Microsoft "discovered" that decades later.

Indeed; I find it slightly amusing that Ada's had tasking for 30 years and the C-type folks are bending over backwards trying to find not only "a way" to do it, but also "the right way."

> > If someone can make an Ada to Javascript compiler, may be there
> > is still a chance?
> 
> Nope. Machine in the hands of a savage is scrap metal.

Ah, come on; we have Ada compilers targeting the JVM, surely we can have some that target ECMA-Script.