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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/11
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Siamak Kaveh a �crit dans le message
<1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca>...
>Hello Everybody,
>
>Accepting that Ada is one of the best available programming
languages, the
>following question comes to my mind: Why BIG PLAYERS of computer
industry
>(IBM, HP, COMPAQ(Digital), CRAY, Microsoft, SUN...) don't develop
their
>native ADA compiler? (or they disconnected their development).
>
It is true that Ada never got much support from hardware vendors.
Remember that one of Ada's major benefits is that is allows you to
write truly portable code, so you can switch hardware more easily, and
THAT is not very appealing to hardware vendors...
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