Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]

["David Tannen" <tannen@jcdisciples.org>]

Hi,

>I mean the first rule of the compliance was that there be no
extensions and
>VAX immediately violated that rule.


Could you specify exactly what you mean by "no extensions and
VAX immediately violated that rule"?  I have worked extensively
with the DEC Ada compiler and I did not see any "extensions" outside
of the LRM.

Oh by the way, VAX doesn't produce the manual or spec that is V&V
(ie ACVC tested).  Ada is defined by the LRM.  That is what every
vendor has to test against.  I know I use to work for an Ada vendor
and testing using the ACVCs was part of my responsibility.

>> FWIW, my experiences with porting Ada (83 or 95) code have been
quite
>> satisfactory.
>
>What did you port as the new platform?


I have been involved in maintaining code (about 1msloc) that
targeted three different processors and ran on three different
hosts (9 combinations).  With all of that code we had about
90% of the code in common and 10% varied because of the
platform or the target h/w.

Ada is a very portable language and the features it provides
make it extremely portable.  If an application isn't portable
that is fault of the developers and most importantly the
managers and PMs for that project.

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