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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ccf4d2913b701142,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10804c,891e0abc6f64a2a0 X-Google-Attributes: gid10804c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-07 03:09:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal12.airnews.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: alt.mud.programming,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Programming languages Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 04:50:06 -0500 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: X-Orig-Message-ID: References: <1A9DF0E8073267EF.B62586373A07E144.ADA39FA9355E945D@lp.airnews.net> <3e8b85c2_4@corp-news.newsgroups.com> <3e8ce97f_4@corp-news.newsgroups.com> Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library2.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Mon Apr 7 05:06:08 2003 NNTP-Posting-Host: ![5<(1k-W(iPQ5B (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Xref: archiver1.google.com alt.mud.programming:2817 comp.lang.ada:35963 Date: 2003-04-07T04:50:06-05:00 List-Id: "kat-Zygfryd" <6667@wp.pl> wrote in message news:b6qulb$o6l$1@news.onet.pl... > I've writing a mud for some time now in C++ > but decided lately to re-write it in Ada. > The reason was that although a C++ MUD > may work a little faster, reading and extending > Ada code is much simpler. Moreover Ada code > is more standarized, so it's not a big problem to > switch between compilers/archs, where my C++ > code compiles well under some compilers and > doesn't compile at all on others. > And... Ada has got an IDE with very sexy > diagram rendering (GRASP) I've added a followup to comp.lang.ada, as this will be at least mildly interesting to some of the people there. When you finish this, please drop a note to comp.lang.ada, ideally some comments about how it went and lessons learned along the way. MUD programming is almost exclusively a C/C++ domain these days; the mere existence of an Ada-based MUD would go a ways toward convincing some people that Ada really is a general-purpose programming language. Also, the fact that you did it in Ada without being coerced by a US DoD contract clause will carry some weight. (For some reason, no one wants to believe Boeing when they say they used, and required all their subcontractors to use, Ada for the 777 because it was a whole lot better than C/C++.)