Re: Ada and embedded applications

["Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>]

If that's the case, yeah, he's operating on ancient information. Lots of the
early compilers were very bad. This is the classic case of people evaluating
a language based on a particular compiler rather than on the basis of the
syntax & semantics of the language. Really smart people fall into this trap
surprisingly often. In a way, its inevitable because you can't write
real-world code using a theoretic compiler. If all the language
implementations are bad, its hard not to conclude that the language itself
is bad - or that it doesn't matter how "good" it *might* be one day.

I'd suggest you recommend he try writing some code in Ada using a more
modern compiler & that he learn something about pragma Supress, etc. If you
want efficient code, you *must* learn the language thoroughly & understand
your compiler.

MDC
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"Chris Campbell" <chris.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:hfoT6.11877$fs6.656133@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Maybe this posters views where based on the fact that the last time he
used Ada
> was in 1983 and it was a Janus compiler (i.e. Ada was relatively new and
> compiler technology less advanced than it is today).