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: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,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: <4iupk7$5t4@tpd.dsccc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 143731009 references: <4ikbar$g0k@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: >In article adaworks@netcom.com (AdaWorks) writes: > >> OK, Kevin, >> >> I'll give you this one. There were some non-portable workarounds, but >> this was a shortcoming of Ada 83. The new ISO Ada standard supports >> the ability to pass a function of procedure as an argument. > >Kevin does not appear to realize that it is 1996 and that ISO 8652:1995 >has been out for over a year and that compilers (including Gnat and >ObjectAda) for it are available. This seems to be why his comments >are largely out-of-date irrelevant rubbish. > You don't seem to realize that I wasn't talking about 1996. I was relating my problems developing an Ada application from 1991 to 1994, and explaining why the issues prevented the use Ada for normal desktop applications, at least until the release of GNAT. These early problems were a major factor causing Ada's continuing unpopularity. People tried it. They didn't like it. Now everything is fixed, but that early taste lingers. BTW, what architectures does ObjectAda support, and will ObjectAda code compile largely unmodified with Gnat, and vice versa? -- Kevin Cline