From: Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: Ada rotting? (was: What ada 83 compiler is *best*)
Date: 1998/12/09
Date: 1998-12-09T10:29:09-08:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87emq9tbfp.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: to.reply-0812980930120001@129.197.97.40
to.reply@read.my.sig (Rick Thorne) writes:
> Very well put. OK, OK - Ada's back in the tool box. Granted, it'll be a
> less used tool for now, and I guarantee I'll need to sharpen it 'cuz all
> my Java and C++ tools are banging it around, but it's back.
In some ways Ada is sharper than ever. It has been described as a
language ahead of its time in the sense that personally owning a
computer capable of running a full Ada compiler back in 1983 was quite
a feat. Nowadays you can buy one for about the price of a good CRT
monitor.
In my last job the make process consisted of "well I write the names
of all my classes with special macros into this template, then I run
this Perl tool over the template which does some stuff and then runs
imake which produces the makefile, and then ALL I have to do is type
make and it builds it".
In the previous job to that I used to tell GNAT where all my source
code was (depending on the particular project) and then do gnatmake
name_of_main_unit, end of story, so for me the transition to C++ was
one of being deprived of sharp useful tools and being given blunt
dangerous ones. Admittedly there are better ways in Java and C++ that
that, but none I've heard are better than gnatmake was/is for my
purposes.
Cheers,
Chris
--
Chris Morgan <mihalis at ix.netcom.com> http://www.mihalis.net
"At least my mother isn't on the
cover of Crack Whore magazine"
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Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-03 0:00 What ada 83 compiler is *best* Rick Thorne
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Gautier
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-12-08 0:00 ` David Gillon
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-03 0:00 ` marc j bejerano
1998-12-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-04 0:00 ` Ada rotting? (was: What ada 83 compiler is *best*) Roga Danar
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-07 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <366D6BF8.B1F4C1C0@hercii.mar.lmco.com>
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Chris Morgan [this message]
1998-12-07 0:00 ` What ada 83 compiler is *best* Jeff Carter
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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