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: 103376,76da32d8c4934801 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Ada --> C Translation, was: Win CE target Date: 1998/10/13 Message-ID: <6vvm2j$kk0$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 400594904 References: <6vp23h$hc3$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> <6vrlb4$jj$1@jupiter.cs.uml.edu> <1998Oct12.162441.1@eisner> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x1.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Oct 13 13:54:26 1998 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.05 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1998-10-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <1998Oct12.162441.1@eisner>, Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam wrote: > In article <6vrlb4$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. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own