Re: How many different processors do you use?

[muddy_buddy@my-deja.com]

In article <7jhp34$6f1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  fmanning@my-deja.com wrote:
> In article <7jh07e$tek$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   muddy_buddy@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > [...] With the failure of the Ada effort, we again face the problem
> > of having software that can't be run on the currently available
> > processors. Java is just not up to image processing, and C/C++ lack
> > consistant enough standards to insure processor indepence without a
> > lot of work.   [...]
>
> What's the deal with Ada? Was there a lack of compiler? Just curious.
IN MOHO, Ada is indeed better than C, and Ada 95 is more consistant
than C++, if not quite as OO friendly.  I think what happen to Ada is
the following.

1. The Ada comittee went and created their own syntak, and increased
the learning curve.

2. The Reagen adminstration was so anti-gov that they didn't fund a
quality free or at least cheap Ada development system for education, and
small companies.  An Ada development system could cost upto 10,000 $ for
a bad product.

3. Ada's requirements on compiliers made them more expensive, and very
hard to do on DSP, and small embedded Processors.  This meant that
Chip manufactures were reluctant to fund development.

4. The high costs of using Ada prevented widespread use outside the
defense industry.

5. As said before, the government blind insistance that Ada was the
choice for everything, embittered the defense companies and their
Engineers.

6. All of the above has created a situlation, where staffing Ada
programmers is very, very difficult.  Many companies have given up and
switched back to C/C++ including mine.  This problem was made much
worst by the current engineering market, where people need and want to
be able to move often.  Knowing Ada is not a big plus outside defense
and a few related fields.

7.  The killer is that defense programs run for years and thus you like
to start with the state of the Art Processors.  Since Ada is not a
popular language it is almost never supported at the start of a
Processor life cycle.


BTW I know Ada and it is better than C, though the tools aren't too
hot.

Robert Posey

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