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 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4871bb700d475964 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-06-07 07:16:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!proxad.net!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: an interested business-oriented programmer Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:52:03 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9fo0u4$nrb$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B1EED20.C607AB28@worldnet.att.net> <3B1F09F8.A6521EEF@PublicPropertySoftware.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 991921924 24427 136.170.200.133 (7 Jun 2001 13:52:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 7 Jun 2001 13:52:04 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:8319 Date: 2001-06-07T13:52:04+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- 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/ "Al Christians" 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