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, MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b0d569080889afd6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: A question for my personal knowledge. Date: 1999/05/11 Message-ID: <7h97g6$sss$1@nnrp1.deja.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 476546318 References: <1VEZ2.1515$I51.88140@carnaval.risq.qc.ca> <7h8v9n$dm4$2@wanadoo.fr> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x42.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja.com - Share what you know. Learn what you don't. X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue May 11 12:23:36 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-05-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7h8v9n$dm4$2@wanadoo.fr>, "Jean-Pierre Rosen" 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). --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---