From: Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homepage@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 05:42:57 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2016-08-31T05:42:57-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 11:51:36 PM UTC+2, riea...@comcast.net wrote:
> All in all, much, much better than other languages where moving an application from one compiler to another for the same target can take weeks.
Sorry, but this argument is as wrong as it is frequently repeated.
If you move Ada to another compiler, you can be sure that your gnatmake will not work anymore. And then it will take weeks to configure the new tool.
Similarly, I can see people arguing that Ada is more portable than "other languages" (meaning C), because they never move outside of GNAT. If you don't change the compiler, then Ada and "other languages" are similarly portable. There is nothing magic in Ada, it is a single toolchain that people are attached to (for whatever reason), that makes their code kind of portable or stable.
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Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com
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2016-07-23 5:23 Inspirels Ada on cortex tutorial linker issue Devin
2016-07-23 6:57 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-23 7:34 ` Devin
2016-07-23 8:07 ` Devin
2016-07-23 16:32 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-24 2:32 ` Devin
2016-07-24 7:41 ` Simon Wright
2016-07-25 4:35 ` Devin
2016-07-25 8:07 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-20 22:09 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-21 1:30 ` Devin
2016-08-21 1:37 ` Devin
2016-08-21 14:38 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-08-22 4:00 ` Devin
2016-08-22 11:37 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-29 17:49 ` Nicholas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-29 21:51 ` rieachus
2016-08-30 14:55 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 0:01 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-08-31 10:15 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-31 12:42 ` Maciej Sobczak [this message]
2016-09-01 9:15 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-01 16:33 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-02 0:36 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2016-09-02 12:05 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 12:53 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2016-09-02 15:24 ` G.B.
2016-09-02 21:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-03 9:20 ` G.B.
2016-09-03 13:33 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2016-09-04 15:08 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-02 13:40 ` AdaMagica
2016-09-03 11:58 ` Brian Drummond
2016-09-03 12:12 ` Björn Lundin
2016-08-30 12:33 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-30 13:01 ` Simon Wright
2016-08-30 15:06 ` Nicolas Colin Paul de Gloucester
2016-08-31 10:34 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 20:58 ` Simon Wright
2016-09-01 11:08 ` Brian Drummond
2016-08-31 12:47 ` Maciej Sobczak
2016-09-01 0:02 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2016-09-01 9:03 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
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