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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,47c31ee2e50a590c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: pontius@twonky.btv.ibm.com (Dale Pontius) Subject: Re: Ada saved by gnat (was Re: Where's Aetech?) Date: 1995/04/21 Message-ID: <3n8930$ie8@twonky.btv.ibm.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 101370067 distribution: world references: <3lv3et$dcb@news1.delphi.com> <3mjcci$gcg@news.znet.com> organization: IBM Technology Products reply-to: pontius@vnet.ibm.com newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-04-21T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <3mjcci$gcg@news.znet.com>, Jim Dorman writes: > > lots of stuff... > I'll acknowledge your points, but... In the current craze of cost-cutting, capitalistic, corporate America it can be awfully hard to buy a simple thing like a compiler. I said this a month back, but I'll repeat it in this context. I'm not a programmer, I just do some programming to enhance my 'real job' productivity. I can no longer justify the purchase of a compiler not supplied by the company. I have two relevant platforms to think about, AIX/6000 and OS/2. The only company supplied compiler I can get is C++. Even if I were a programmer, I would probably need to use an 'approved' programming language, probably C++ in these days. In this environment, If I want to stick with Wirth-style languages or something in that flavor (Ada) I've got to shop the free circuits. For Ada, my only choice is GNAT. As a matter of fact, GNU Pascal may be the only other choice besides C/C++, and I suspect it's so far out of vogue by now that it hasn't been ported to both AIX/6000 and OS/2. C/C++ has swept the industry so pervasively that I suspect there won't be a big compiler market anywhere else for some time. For now, programming languages like Ada or Wirth-family are relegated to 'secret weapon' status, for software houses that want to bring out less buggy, more maintainable software and aren't afraid to buck trends to do it. (my opinion) Dale Pontius (NOT speaking for IBM)