From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: What Mac developers think of Ada !
Date: 1999/10/29
Date: 1999-10-29T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd7ql$gem$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 381A0466.2137859E@mbox5.singnet.com.sg
In article <381A0466.2137859E@mbox5.singnet.com.sg>,
ps750@mbox5.singnet.com.sg wrote:
> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 04:29:48 -0400
> From: "Ronald C.F. Antony" <rcfa@cubiculum.com>
> Subject: Re: Coding Darwin in Ada 95
>
> > If Darwin is to be unique among the unixes, why not rewrite or
> recompile
> > the bulk of the Darwin OS (written in C++) in Ada 95 (high level OO
> > procedural-based language, ISO 8652:1995) instead of Objective C or
> C++
> > ?
>
> Because a) it's a lot of work, b) means everything would have to be
> reoptimized from scratch, c) C and Unix are like Strawberries and
a and b here are decent points, and are probably the real reason. The
rest of the post is pure hogwash.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-30 0:00 What Mac developers think of Ada ! Siow Wey Hua
1999-10-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-10-30 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-10-30 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Michael Smith
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Excessive quoting (was: What Mac developers think of Ada !) Ted Dennison
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
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