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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, PRICES_ARE_AFFORDABLE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,3727232787ce671e X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,3727232787ce671e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-05-16 10:10:19 PST Path: archiver1.sj.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!193.251.151.101!opentransit.net!proxad.net!isdnet!psinet-france!psiuk-f4!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: Universities in the US Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 13:00:33 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9dubnj$jk6$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <9drfcr$du11@news-dxb> <9drk4t$hjk$1@news3.cadvision.com> <9drq8e$4ci$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9drsqc$mkm$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 990032435 20102 136.170.200.133 (16 May 2001 17:00:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 May 2001 17:00:35 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.sj.google.com comp.lang.ada:7573 comp.lang.lisp:10162 Date: 2001-05-16T17:00:35+00:00 List-Id: I'd have to agree that in the early days of Ada, she basically shot herself in the foot by the bad quality (and huge expense!) of the compilers that first appeared. People became convinced that Ada would never work because it was "too complex" for anyone to build a descent compiler for the language. Nowadays, the world is considerably different. Computers got more powerful and Ada compilers have become significantly better. Compiler technology now is such that Ada can produce code as good, or better, than just about any other popular language. Also, you have GNAT freely available and a number of other compilers (such as RR and Aonix) that are available at affordable prices. Maybe back in 1983, Ada was "ahead of its time" but today all the right things are in place to enable one to seriously consider Ada for any development effort. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Lieven Marchand" wrote in message news:m33da68fvk.fsf@localhost.localdomain... > It might. When I first encountered Ada in college, I hated it, partly > because of a very bad compiler (a slow horror that tried to correct > errors by inserting random tokens under VM/CMS). Now that I've had > some experience with maintaining large programs hacked on by many > people over the years, I start to appreciate a lot of the Ada > philosophy. >