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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ac55ec18f7b0a53c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-06 09:06:25 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!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 Subject: Re: Ada and embedded applications Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 11:47:57 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9fljbf$4of$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 991842479 4879 136.170.200.133 (6 Jun 2001 15:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Jun 2001 15:47:59 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8235 Date: 2001-06-06T15:47:59+00:00 List-Id: If that's the case, yeah, he's operating on ancient information. Lots of the early compilers were very bad. This is the classic case of people evaluating a language based on a particular compiler rather than on the basis of the syntax & semantics of the language. Really smart people fall into this trap surprisingly often. In a way, its inevitable because you can't write real-world code using a theoretic compiler. If all the language implementations are bad, its hard not to conclude that the language itself is bad - or that it doesn't matter how "good" it *might* be one day. I'd suggest you recommend he try writing some code in Ada using a more modern compiler & that he learn something about pragma Supress, etc. If you want efficient code, you *must* learn the language thoroughly & understand your compiler. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Chris Campbell" wrote in message news:hfoT6.11877$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).