Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada?

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On 08 Feb 2001 21:32:50 +0100, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
>
>> On 08 Feb 2001 10:54:06 +0100, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>> >A lot of software which has been developed on a GNU/Linux system
>> >assumes a little-endian machine with pointers and C ints which are 32
>> >bits wide, and that the hardware does not require any alignment for
>> >the standard types.
>> 
>> A lot of software? Pretty much anything shipped with Debian or RedHat has
>> been compiled and probably run on Alphas and other architectures. 
>
>This is just a fraction in comparison to what is announced via
>channels like Freshmeat.

But it's a large fraction, and more important, it's one selected (at least
on Debian) for the property of being interesting. The original quote was
"if _you_ are not diddling with the hardware ... then porting to *any*
version of X/Linux from *any* other _should_ be no harder than copying
the package ... to the desired platform and typing 'make'." (Underlines mine.)
The fact that some beginning programmers rewriting some basic project make
elementary mistakes (that would happen on any platform, and any low-level
language like C or Ada) does not mean that you should make them.

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