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: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-09 08:20:18 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!xfer13.netnews.com!netnews.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp2.deja.com!nnrp1.deja.com!not-for-mail From: n_brunot@my-deja.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 16:12:53 GMT Organization: Deja.com Message-ID: <93fd9v$s03$1@nnrp1.deja.com> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <3A51EC04.91353CE7@uol.com.br> <3A529C97.2CA4777F@home.com> <3A53CB9E.EA7CF86C@uol.com.br> <3A5466DE.811D43A5@acm.org> <932aol$ikc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <932mi6$r2k$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9343b1$3g5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <934iuf$eqv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <937kc7$ssq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93c0e9$4u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93e33l$tfu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93ekmo$a14$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93f73f$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.27.48.34 X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Jan 09 16:12:53 2001 GMT X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows NT; DigExt) X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x73.deja.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 212.27.48.34 X-MyDeja-Info: XMYDJUIDn_brunot Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3821 Date: 2001-01-09T16:12:53+00:00 List-Id: In article <93f73f$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar wrote: >Do a little research here to find out just how amusing this ignorance is! Well I followed your advice and found some reasons for my ignorance, and guess we are far more than I thought in that case :-)) For those people here is what I found - Jovial seems quite unknown outside embedded programing folks - Quite a lot programmers (a mojority ?) including me weren't born at Jovial greatest time :-) - If you check http://www.xinotech.com/xino-jovial.html you'll find some reasons not to loose too much time about Jovial future and characteristics including : << Emulation This alternative extends the life of the legacy Jovial application but with the following restrictions: It requires that the application be maintained in Jovial, thus in turn requiring the assistance of scarce Jovial developers, which is one of the main motivations to move away from Jovial in the first place. It requires the continuing use of Jovial compilers and Jovial development tools. These tools are becoming more and more scarce and this is in fact one of the reasons why migration away from Jovial is becoming a pressing necessity. Emulated systems will typically execute at one fifth the speed of a native application, so for time-critical systems, this sacrifice in speed may not be acceptable. This option will restrict the functionality available from the newer hardware platforms and software environments, as such functionality may not be available to the programmer at the Jovial level, thus severely crippling the modernization potential of the application. >> What about a Jovialurassic park script for Steven Spielberg :-) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/