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=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_RANDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9ab76c2183ecc054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-30 15:41:30 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!falcon.america.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: Ted Dennison Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada to C Translator Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:31:18 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <92lr86$2c6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <92fk1v0cou@drn.newsguy.com> <92fqlt$h8d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A4CF58B.A8FF223C@collins.rockwell.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.48.27.130 X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Dec 30 23:31:18 2000 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001207 X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x70.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 204.48.27.130 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDtedennison Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3480 Date: 2000-12-30T23:31:18+00:00 List-Id: In article , Frode =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tenneb=F8?= wrote: > My point is that with Ada, you will most likely get a maintained > compiler for a current platform in 15 years. Will this be true for > C++? That's a good point. If you keep an ear to the ground, you may have noticed some faint movement away from C++ already beginning. What are you going to do in 2-3 years when Micro$oft abandons C++ for their own C# (or whatever's hip then)? Are you going to port your code again (increasing its buggyness each time) whenever the "universal center of hipness" moves on to a new language? > Also, you are switching to NT 4 NOW? NT has already reached EOL. If Yup. The IOS on our project was bid for NT4. During the course of the project, they were forced to move to Win2K because the newest wifty features they needed (dual-monitor 3D support) were no longer being worked on for NT4. Nevermind that this forced us to upgrade our entire software development toolsuite as well... -- T.E.D. http://www.telepath.com/~dennison/Ted/TED.html Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/