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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public From: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/03/22 Message-ID: <4iup93$5d6@tpd.dsccc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143731002 references: <4imqofINNn82@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4ipbdb$6j7@tpd.dsccc.com> organization: DSC Communications Corporation Switch Products Division newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-03-22T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Jon S Anthony wrote: >Well, the POSIX bindings have been done for a while now. And they >work fine with Gnat. So, I suppose this paragraph is just irrelevant >rubbish. > You took my remarks out of context. I was pointing out why Ada is not more popular now, and why people had good and sufficient for continuing to use C and C++ through the early 1990's. Ada advocates seem to attribute to continued use of C and C++ to willful ignorance, and that just isn't so. There were serious portability problems with the use of Ada for UNIX application development in the days before GNAT. >... >It's worked just fine for me on several occasions for this >sort of thing. Quite practical. Perhaps you could tell us more precisely what sort of things you have developed. How large was your application? Did you provide a GUI? What compiler did you use? When did you write it? Did you port it or attempt to port it to multiple varieties of UNIX, say SunOS and HP-UX and SGI Irix? -- Kevin Cline