Re: Microsoft & Ada

[Adrian Hoe <AdrianHoe@nowhere.com>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> Stéphane Richard writes:
> 
>>Pascal Obry wrote: 
>>
>>>That's not a big problem. Ada needs some backing. If Microsoft has
>>>an Ada compiler this will be a good thing to have Ada used in
>>>projects, manager will be reassure... enven if you do not use
>>>Microsoft Visual Ada :)
>>>
>>>Pascal.
> 
> 
>>I second this fully :-).  no matter what the reason, even if any, it
>>could be a great step for Ada.
> 
> 
> But only if they respect the ISO standard.  A few years ago, they
> tried to invent "non-portable Java" and the only thing that stopped
> them was a trial by Sun.  No Ada company, I fear, is in a position to
> sue Microsoft if they invent a "Microsoft Visual Ada" with weak type
> checking, no tasking, and no standard library other than Win32 to
> "ease interoperability" with their other .NET languages.
> 
> Of course, the mere existence of a "Microsoft Visual Ada" flyer or
> brochure would be enough to make Ada in general more popular.  I don't
> care as much for the actual compiler :)
> 

I will yell: "Microsoft is murdering Ada!"
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Adrian Hoe
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