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: f891f,9d9325e2ee8461aa X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,53ac8da1f34d53c4,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10204d,960b26935b9a4a0c X-Google-Attributes: gid10204d,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-01-23 10:09:13 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!Starbase.NeoSoft.COM!not-for-mail From: claird@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Cameron Laird) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc,comp.software.international,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gurus - which lang. for this task? Date: 23 Jan 1995 12:09:13 -0600 Organization: NeoSoft Internet Services +1 713 684 5969 Message-ID: <3g0rc9$o4j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> References: <1995Jan12.143131.2083@midway.uchicago.edu> <3fh4l1$mpm@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3fuskb$hae@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: starbase.neosoft.com Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.misc:10463 comp.software.international:1338 comp.lang.ada:18195 Date: 1995-01-23T12:09:13-06:00 List-Id: In article <3fuskb$hae@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>, David Weller wrote: . . . >Let me suggest a solution, y'all can take it or leave it: >The language has these characteristics: > -- Recently ANSI/ISO standardized > -- Fully object-oriented, but doesn't mandate OO methods > -- Modular > -- Complete support for UniCode characters and UniCode IO > -- Very high-level language with efficient low-level support > constructs > -- Completely compatible with C, Fortran, or COBOL through > standardized interfaces for each language >There's more, but that pretty much answers the original poster's >questions. ... except for its suitability for prototyping. Ada has had a bad reputation in that regard. Does it still suffer from multi-day link operations? Under- stand, please, that I'm a "friendly", looking for reasons to learn more about Ada. . . . -- Cameron Laird ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/pub/users/claird/home.html claird@Neosoft.com +1 713 267 7966 claird@litwin.com +1 713 996 8546