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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dennison@telepath.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/14 Message-ID: <77l9dt$a8n$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432576855 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CBAED.20BE91CA@pwfl.com> <77j34t$b11@agora.dmz.khoral.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.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: Thu Jan 14 17:27:35 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) Date: 1999-01-14T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <77j34t$b11@agora.dmz.khoral.com>, "Richard Krehbiel" wrote: > Most of the rest of us care deeply whether the compiler and toolset costs > $50,000 a year for the support contract. Choosing a language which is not > just a good language, but which is also popular, means we enjoy econmies of > scale and competition that ensure low prices and a choice of vendors. This > is just one point of many to consider, but unless you find GNAT suitable, it > may tend to favor C++ over Ada. Fourtunately Ada compilers for the PC platform do *not* exhibit this behavior. However they do tend to have the drawback that you still have to buy Visual C++ to do serious development. Microsoft doesn't make their linker available any other way, and noone's ballsy enough to reverse engineer it. T.E.D. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own