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: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-10 04:52:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!newsfeed2.dallas1.level3.net!news.level3.com!zeus.visi.com!green.octanews.net!news-out.octanews.net!news-out.visi.com!petbe.visi.com!news.octanews.net!newsfeeds-atl2!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <4028D40D.8050001@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <2460735.u7KiuvdgQP@linux1.krischik.com> <54759e7e.0402081525.50c7adae@posting.google.com> <54759e7e.0402091826.2847e0c@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:52:48 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.2.230 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net 1076417568 209.165.2.230 (Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:52:48 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 04:52:48 PST Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5392 comp.lang.c:21597 comp.lang.c++:18438 comp.lang.java:2833 Date: 2004-02-10T12:52:48+00:00 List-Id: MSG wrote: > 3. not very performance demanding (don't know about other compilers, > but they say GNAT produces slow executables) > I don't know how this comes up - I've used Gnat for non-realtime code and found its performance to be as good as most other languages compiled for PCs or workstations. It is, after all, just a different front end to the gcc compiler and so the code generation is as good as for Gnu C and the other languages it supports. (As always, you need to know how to use the compiler to get optimal results. That's true no matter what language you're talking about.) BTW: I use Ada all the time for hard real time systems and its performance is as good or better than other languages routinely used to do similar jobs. I have very demanding timing requirements and very old, slow processors. If you get a good quality embedded Ada compiler, it works just fine. The "language" can't be slow if good quality implementations exist to prove the opposite. So before you go reacting to rumors, I'd suggest you actually look at some facts about Ada. You might even get yourself some benchmark algorithms and test it out. That would be the scientific thing to do. Believing in unsubstantiated rumors is a little like believing in fairies & pixies because you heard someone tell a story about them. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================