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: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-19 14:51:18 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!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 The Best Language? Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 17:20:11 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9j7iug$eb2$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B59EE1C@MailAndNews.com> <9j74bj$lmp$8@news.tpi.pl> <9j796h$b2t$1@nh.pace.co.uk> <9j7h4l$lpr$1@news.tpi.pl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 136.170.200.133 X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 995577616 14690 136.170.200.133 (19 Jul 2001 21:20:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Jul 2001 21:20:16 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10288 Date: 2001-07-19T21:20:16+00:00 List-Id: That's an interesting definition of "portable". There's ***UNIX***!!! and there's a handful of insignificant, unimportant, irrelavent "others". Would you think it at all important that code be able to port to the millions of "other" machines out there that run non-Unix OS's, like OS/2, MVS, VMS, MacOS, and (dare I say it?) Windows? I'd bet that there are more non-Unix platforms (taken as a sum) than there are Unix platforms - or at least it would be a really big number to be ignoring. It would be like us VMS bigots saying "Yea, my software runs on *both* kinds of computers - VAXs *and* Alphas." (Not much of a challenge, is it? :-) True portability is, of course, extremely hard to achieve. But defining the problem out of existence doesn't seem fair. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Tomasz Wegrzanowski" wrote in message news:9j7h4l$lpr$1@news.tpi.pl... > > If it ports among Unices, it's portable. > Assembler certainly doesn't. >