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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffe7b9269a00c843 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-24 23:13:19 PST Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!sgigate!sgiblab!a2i!dhesi From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada cost breakpoints Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 93 07:00:22 GMT References: <9303151702.AA01402@manta.nosc.mil> <65260@mimsy.umd.edu> <1993Mar21.120121.16006@hellgate.utah.edu> Sender: news@rahul.net (Usenet News) Organization: a2i network Nntp-Posting-Host: bolero Date: 1993-03-25T07:00:22+00:00 List-Id: In emery@dr_no.mitre.org (David Emery) writes: >The problem with this example is that it is clearly *VERY* dependent >on Unix, and specifically BSD, semantics. Consider what would happen >if you tried to port this code to a non-BSD or non-Unix environment. This was presumably in response to my posting, in which I said, Some environments (BSD) make it easy to use small independent programs that efficiently invoke and communicate with one another. In these environments C and C++ will work very well -- just keep the pieces small. But don't forget that I also said: Other environments may make it difficult to do the same. In such environments Ada might be clearly better, though the controversy will continue to rage. But why are you using such environments in the first place? Note the final question. It is not just rhetorical. Anybody who mandata Ada is probably also in a position to mandate BSD or an equivalent environment. -- Rahul Dhesi also: dhesi@cirrus.com