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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-22 01:08:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System Date: 22 Feb 2002 01:08:28 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9ff447f2.0202220108.7f14c9bc@posting.google.com> References: <5Tzc8.111999$H37.15018616@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3C73F480.5010806@mail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 210.186.173.33 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1014368908 20265 127.0.0.1 (22 Feb 2002 09:08:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Feb 2002 09:08:28 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20247 Date: 2002-02-22T09:08:28+00:00 List-Id: "tony gair" wrote in message news:... > "Hyman Rosen" wrote in message > news:3C73F480.5010806@mail.com... > > Joel Sherrill wrote: > > > I have always enjoyed the irony that C/C++ supporters enhancing RTEMS > > > are improving it as an Ada run-time. :) > > > > It's not really ironic. Remember that, while the Ada world thinks of > > C/C++ as the enemy and the competition, the C/C++ world barely realizes > > that Ada exists, and certainly wouldn't mind giving it a helping hand. > > > > I think the C++ /Ada rivally is born of some peoples need to gang fight. > I would look like at C++ and Ada not as friends but as occasional lovers > who don't use any contraception. > Ada and C++ offspring include > 1) GNAT translator > 2) Gtkada > 3) ...... > > GNAT and GTKada would not exist in their present useful form without > C++ But, if I am correct, GNAT is in Ada. And GtkAda is of course in Ada, sitting on top of GTK which is in C/C++. > and many C++ programmers would not exist if their planes or trains or > automobiles > had not used Ada with their subsystems. > > PS you could also say there would be a lot more innocent civilians around > without > Ada or C++ supported weapon systems. Perhaps the world will have more peace if without Ada (or any other programming languages) supported advanced weapon systems. :) As in Chinese's Ying-Yang, if Ying exists, so does Yang. If good purpose exists, so does the bad! :( -- Adrian Hoe -- http://greenlime.com/users/adrian.hoe