From: dennison@telepath.com
Subject: Re: Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target
Date: 1998/10/13
Date: 1998-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6vvm2j$kk0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1998Oct12.162441.1@eisner
In article <1998Oct12.162441.1@eisner>,
Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote:
> In article <6vrlb4$jj$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu>, dramirez@cs.uml.edu (Dr Amirez)
writes:
>
> > Well the reason why I brought the Operating systems issue up
> > is that it's impossible to write Ada utilities without an
> > Ada OS. But if you could build Ada utilities on UNIX that
> > outperform UNIX C utilities then it's fine with me. Make sure
> > you ship copies to the ACM.
>
> I can't speak for Unix, but on VMS it is quite possible to write
> general purpose utilities in Ada. The trick is in the bindings
> that describe the operating system services to the compiler. This
> is no different than for C, Pascal, Fortran, Cobol or any other
> language.
I can. Its quite possible for Unix and Windows NT as well. In fact its often
*easier* to write Unix utilities in Ada, since you typically don't have to
create and keep working one of those gawd-awful Unix makefiles.
--
T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-20 0:00 Win CE target William A Whitaker
1998-09-20 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dennison
1998-09-21 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-28 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: " Stefan Helfert
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-09-30 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-29 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-10 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-11 0:00 ` Dr Amirez
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison [this message]
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Andi Kleen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` PC
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Operating System in Ada (was Ada --> C Translation) Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-14 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-12 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-21 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1998-10-13 0:00 ` Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-14 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-16 0:00 ` Tasking/blocking system calls (was: Ada --> C Translation) Mats Weber
1998-09-20 0:00 ` Win CE target dewarr
1998-09-20 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-09-23 0:00 ` falis
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