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: 103376,6a7cfec93e22adfc X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-06 07:59:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: AdaMax? (was: ada to C++ translation) Date: 6 Mar 2002 07:59:25 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0203060759.495623f6@posting.google.com> References: <3c81060d$1@giga.realtime.net> <5ee5b646.0203021621.ce5a579@posting.google.com> <3c838b53@giga.realtime.net> <4519e058.0203041210.5f878d07@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1015430365 19999 127.0.0.1 (6 Mar 2002 15:59:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Mar 2002 15:59:25 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20863 Date: 2002-03-06T15:59:25+00:00 List-Id: "Marin David Condic" wrote in message news:... > O.K. but to stretch the analogy a little further. Look at regular, vs HDTV. > A content developer might like HDTV, but if the camera equipment, etc., is > too expensive (development environments) or the tools aren't available to No, that's a different analogy altogether. HDTV's problem isn't lack of openness, its just the normal ramp-up problem for any new technology. The end of this story has yet to be written. That fact alone makes attempts to draw analogies w/ programming languages unsatisfactory, as no real conclusion can be reached. I'd say its still wrong from one perspective though. Programming languages don't really resemble media formats much at all. If I have a player for one media format, it generally won't handle a competing format. Either way, for that player to be worthwhile for the purchaser, people have to develop content that works with it. If "The Lord of the Rings" is only release using another format, your'e hosed. Languages don't work that way at all. If I've got a C compiler, but Fred chooses to use Tea (fictional language) to produce his programs, that really doesn't hurt me at all. As far as the users are concerned, they really can't even tell the difference. For that reason, I don't believe formats should *ever* be used as analogies with computer languages. They just aren't analgous. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html