Re: an interested business-oriented programmer

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

Annex F is "normative" which, if I understand correctly, means its basically
a requirement for validation. (I'll probably get hit over the head for
that!) I'd suspect that all conforming implementations would have it if they
are targeted to a general-purpose computer. You wouldn't much need it if you
were running on an embedded machine - unless maybe it was a
bank-teller-machine?

As for interfacing to Cobol - I doubt that would be a major concern for
someone who is looking to develop new systems for workstation/PC level
products. There isn't exactly tons of need to interface to Cobol code in
such an environment. If you were using Ada on a mainframe (is there an Ada
implementation for a mainframe that is still in use?) with all sorts of
legacy Cobol code, you might want that - but I don't see thousands of posts
here asking those kinds of questions, so I suspect most vendors wouldn't
support it. I wouldn't consider that a drawback for most business software
development.

MDC
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"Al Christians" <alc@PublicPropertySoftware.com> wrote in message
news:3B1F09F8.A6521EEF@PublicPropertySoftware.com...
> But, if we are talking about business-oriented programming,
> does Aonix implement interfaces.COBOL and Annex F ("information
> systems", which includes decimal data)?
>
> The competition is COBOL and/or either Java or C++ with a decimal
> numbers class library.
>
> Al
>
> James Rogers wrote:
> >
> > "Beard, Frank" wrote:
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gary Scott [mailto:Gary.L.Scott@lmtas.lmco.com]
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > So why doesn't someone put together a "Visual Ada" product
integrated
> > > > with Visual Studio and mass market it?  They did it for Fortran...
> > >
> > > That's what Aonix ObjectAda is, but I think for the past year or more
> > > the marketing has become somewhat deficient.
> >
> > About two years ago I was helping an experienced Visual C++
> > developer use the Aonix ObjectAda tools. He recognized the Aonix
> > interface as being a rather old version of Visual Studio. He really
> > liked using Visual Studio. His answer was to make a few
> > customizations of the Visual Studio configuration files, allowing
> > the current version to fully support development using ObjectAda.
> >
> > To his amazement, the standard Visual Studio debugger worked better
> > on ObjectAda than it did on Visual C++. He saw more detailed
> > information about arrays, collections (records in Ada, classes in C++),
> > and better dereferencing of Ada access types than C++ pointers and
> > references.
> >
> > He immediately appreciated Ada. He also liked the matrix manipulation
> > packages he found and downloaded to help him produce Kalman filters.
> >
> > Jim Rogers
> > Colorado Springs, Colorado USA