Re: Ada 95 used in future Microsoft O/S???

["Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96" <condicma@PWFL.COM>]

Chris Fish <cseic@SW-ENG.FALLS-CHURCH.VA.US> writes:
>I am trying to find the source of a rumor that Microsoft will be using Ada 95
>in future versions of Windows.  Apparently Ada has been chosen to be used to
>combat the Y2K problem and to decrease the number of bugs.
>
>Has anyone heard or read anything on this?
>
    I'd be *real* suprised (pleasantly suprised?) to find out that
    someone would throw out a huge, tested, mature body of code in
    order to gain on some reliability problems. Even if an Ada95
    implementation of WinNT/Win95 had fewer bugs on initial release,
    you've still got to catch up with the maturity curve.

    Now if they were going to do some sort of major rewrite from the
    ground up of a significant chunk of the OS for some other
    perceived improvements, this would make sense. (Although how it is
    that Ada95 cures the Y2K problem, I don't know. Sure, anything
    using Ada time doesn't have a problem, but wherever applications
    have stored dates as "970731" and similar, Ada isn't going to save
    them. Just curious: Did WinNT not account for the Y2K problem in
    implementing system time? It would seem to be pretty foolish not
    to have dealt with it given the lateness in the century of its
    initial release.)

    MDC

Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer     ATT:        561.796.8997
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