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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
Date: 1999-09-28T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7sqq1k$cpl$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7spauv$a2g2@news.cis.okstate.edu

In article <7spauv$a2g2@news.cis.okstate.edu>,
  dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org wrote:
> I guess I wasn't very clear. For most C compilers, I can say
>     cc -o joebob joebob.c
> and it will work. This isn't true for Ada. There is no standaradized
> interface, and there's not even standard file names.

actually, "cc -o whatever.fnord joebob.somethingotherthanc" will also
work for most C compilers (assuming an OS that can handle that
extension). And there is nothing other than convention that says that
include files end in ".h". In fact, vxWorks merrily includes ".c" files
in some of its supplied source code. I've seen other systems use other
extensions (or none at all). Yuk.

Also, once you take the time to learn the interface, every Ada compiler
has a way to rebuild the entire system from sources in one command
without having to manually track down the dependencies. Anyone who has
ever tried to build a large "portable" C system can tell you that Ada
has it all over C in this respect.

--
T.E.D.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~1999-09-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 87+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-09-27  0:00 Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses the middleman
1999-09-27  0:00 ` J. David Bryan
1999-09-27  0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-27  0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-09-27  0:00   ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28  0:00     ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Hyman Rosen
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28  0:00         ` bill
1999-09-27  0:00           ` Aidan Skinner
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Steve Doiel
1999-09-28  0:00   ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-27  0:00 ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00   ` the middleman
1999-09-28  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00     ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00         ` Pragma (was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.) Preben Randhol
1999-09-30  0:00           ` Preben Randhol
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Simon Wright
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-09-28  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Ed Falis
1999-09-28  0:00           ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00       ` p.obry
1999-09-28  0:00         ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00           ` Richard D Riehle
1999-09-28  0:00     ` GNAT listing file default names (was: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses) Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00     ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Gautier
1999-09-28  0:00       ` David Botton
1999-09-29  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00             ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Gautier
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00         ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Ted Dennison
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Alfred Hilscher
1999-09-30  0:00                 ` Gautier
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` tmoran
1999-09-30  0:00                   ` Ehud Lamm
1999-09-30  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]                       ` <7t2e1l$lqt2@ftp.kvaerner.com>
     [not found]                         ` <37F91D6E.58685CFE@mitre.org>
     [not found]                           ` <7tf7uo$h2b$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
     [not found]                             ` <37FBA978.A86762F1@mitre.org>
1999-10-18  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-10-19  0:00                                 ` Code size of Ada ? Robert I. Eachus
     [not found]                           ` <7tf7uo <37FBA978.A86762F1@mitre.org>
     [not found]                             ` <5OkO3.2$1e.659@typhoon.nyu.edu>
1999-10-19  0:00                               ` Code size of Ada ? was Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-29  0:00             ` Gautier
1999-09-29  0:00               ` Ed Falis
1999-09-29  0:00                 ` Gautier
1999-09-29  0:00                 ` tmoran
1999-09-30  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-29  0:00           ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00     ` David Starner
1999-09-28  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-28  0:00         ` Ray Blaak
1999-09-28  0:00     ` David Starner
1999-09-29  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-09-28  0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-28  0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-09-29  0:00   ` the middleman
1999-09-29  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
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