Re: Does Ada still competitive?

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 13.04.12 14:12, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> anon writes on comp.lang.ada:
>> Problem with 
>> Backward Compatibility:
>>
>> 100% backwards compatible is not a cost to be calculated and weighed
>> is a requirement for all languages including, the spoken and written
>> human languages.
> 
> Read Beowulf or even Shakespeare's sonnets and tell me English is
> backward compatible.

Interestingly, there have been heated discussions about
parts of C99 that are not compatible with C89.

Microsoft compilers for C# version N do not accept programs
written for and using features of C# version N+1.

IMHO, this whole backwards compatibility business is
based on FUD. They sell translators for Ada 2005 that
target a number of programming languages, such as C and
a host of assembly languages. And they of all would not be
capable of targeting a programming language such as Ada 95?

I'd rather expect them to have a shop keeper's interest in not
selling an Ada 2005 -> Ada 95 translator, but to also persuade
the customers to give up their Ada 95 compiler and enter
an entirely new business relationship.