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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1b551e3318e4c1a5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-08 18:23:50 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!news.gv.tsc.tdk.com!news.iac.net!newsgate.cistron.nl!skynet.be!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!unlnews.unl.edu!newsfeed.ksu.edu!nntp.ksu.edu!news.okstate.edu!dvdeug From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Why isn't there Visual Ada? Date: 8 Feb 2001 21:06:12 GMT Organization: Oklahoma State University Message-ID: <95v1o4$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> References: <94jki1$eha$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <732FACF8BF7E8D79.8125E7BE5B617E0B.B3DBC49334E8E3C4@lp.airnews.net> <20010207.15581000@buzco.penguinpowered.com> <87bssdpkjl.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <95u6f6$8201@news.cis.okstate.edu> <87y9vgapal.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org NNTP-Posting-Host: x8b4e5089.dhcp.okstate.edu User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5037 Date: 2001-02-08T21:06:12+00:00 List-Id: On 08 Feb 2001 21:32:50 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: >dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes: > >> On 08 Feb 2001 10:54:06 +0100, Florian Weimer 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. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org "I don't care if Bill personally has my name and reads my email and laughs at me. In fact, I'd be rather honored." - Joseph_Greg