From: "Keith Willshaw" <keith_willshaw@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
Date: 2000/01/15
Date: 2000-01-15T01:57:51+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85ok6v$iee$1@ssauraab-i-1.production.compuserve.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 387FCA73.3A61@Ganymede.com
Bill Greene wrote in message <387FCA73.3A61@Ganymede.com>...
>Ed Falis wrote:
>
>Perhaps he is really complaining about the instruction set of a CPU or
>processor architecture (the VAX), and not about a programming language
>(Ada) at all. Note his assertion that "VAX" violated some alleged
>design goal of Ada. Having tried unsuccessfully to discover his meaning
>by direct questions, all I can conclude is that he is blaming the Ada
>programming language (which he apparently thought was designed by DEC)
>for the fact that the VAX is non-compliant with the Data General
>instruction set!
>
More liley its DEC's own compiler he's complaing
about. Their Fortran compilers had lots of extensions
that were far from ANSI standard Fortran.
My company had to move a lot of this stuff from
VMS to Unix and then NT
The DEC extensions were a major headache
Keith
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2000-01-12 0:00 [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Rocky
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-12 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
[not found] ` <Ft6f4.2216$iy5.114812@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-12 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
[not found] ` <3d8f4.2267$iy5.117569@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-12 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-13 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Jeff Carter
[not found] ` <yxof4.2433$iy5.130692@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-12 0:00 ` David Tannen
2000-01-13 0:00 ` Harry Andreas
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw [this message]
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier
[not found] ` <38821915.B56815F8@maths.unine.ch>
[not found] ` <85t9oa$867$1@ssauraaa-i-1.production.compuserve.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
[not found] ` <oHcg4.2964$iy5.180009@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-16 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-16 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Robert S. White
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Robert S. White
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Samuel T. Harris
2000-01-17 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Chris Douglas
2000-01-18 0:00 ` P. S. Norby
[not found] ` <QHvg4.3143$iy5.200225@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Mark Lundquist
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Gillon
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Stuart Palin
2000-01-17 0:00 ` jtarver
2000-01-17 0:00 ` David Tannen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-18 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Roga Danar
2000-01-15 0:00 ` K. Devlin
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-15 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-15 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Keith Willshaw
2000-01-16 0:00 ` Paul J. Adam
2000-01-16 0:00 ` John Keeney
2000-01-17 0:00 ` Paul J. Adam
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-01-18 0:00 ` Keith WIllshaw
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-14 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
[not found] <sBvg4.3142$iy5.199834@typ12.deja.bcandid.com>
2000-01-17 0:00 ` tmoran
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