From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com>
Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge.
Date: 1999/05/11
Date: 1999-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7h97g6$sss$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7h8v9n$dm4$2@wanadoo.fr
In article <7h8v9n$dm4$2@wanadoo.fr>,
"Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 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...
There is absolutely NO evidence to support this conspiracy
theory. After all the same can be said of COBOL, it definitely
allows you to write truly portable code.
In fact Ada got a lot of support from hardware vendors. Nearly
every vendor ensured that Ada compilers were available, either
by building them or making sure someone else built them. Today
only SGI seems to have a direct primary commitment to Ada, but
I suspect that is a development that reflects two things:
1. The Ada market turned out smaller than people expected
2. Hardware manufacturers are turning in the direction of
outsourcing things like Ada compilers anyway (this is at
least a large part of why Digital abandoned their own Ada
compiler, even though it made money for them).
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1999-05-10 0:00 A question for my personal knowledge Siamak Kaveh
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Sam
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Werner Pachler
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Dan Nagle
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Roger Racine
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-18 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-05-18 0:00 ` William B. Clodius
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Chris
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-17 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1999-05-12 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1999-05-11 0:00 ` dennison
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike Yoder
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Mike
1999-05-13 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-05-13 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Georg Bauhaus
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-14 0:00 ` Steve
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-15 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-18 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
1999-05-19 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
1999-05-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-05-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
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