From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Morgan Subject: Re: Ada rotting? (was: What ada 83 compiler is *best*) Date: 1998/12/09 Message-ID: <87emq9tbfp.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420508895 Sender: cm@mihalis.ix.netcom.com References: <366822F5.D80741EE@XXX_nospam_stelnj.com> <366C2564.1C17E3EE@pwfl.com> <366D56C8.B0F0D6F0@pwfl.com> Organization: Linux Hackers Unlimited X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Dec 09 10:29:09 AM PST 1998 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-09T10:29:09-08:00 List-Id: 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 http://www.mihalis.net "At least my mother isn't on the cover of Crack Whore magazine"