From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 5 Jun 93 00:45:24 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland .reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!news.bbn.com!news.bbn.com!cbarber@ucbvax.Berkeley. EDU (Chris Barber) Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used? Message-ID: List-Id: In article shimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil (timothy shimeall) writes: Factor into your calculations that there IS NO STANDARD for many commonly-used languages (incl. C and C++)... Minor nitpick: actually the ANSI standard for C was passed years ago, although ANSI compliant compilers have only recently become available for many systems. The C++ ANSI standard is still several years away.... , and, in fact, there are large portability problems for non-trivial non-Ada-based applications across even rather similar environments. (Right now, I'm trying to port the Aegis project-control system from Sun to Iris, and the bug-chasing is annoyingly complex...) Is this the fault of the languages used or of differences between operating systems? -- Christopher Barber (cbarber@bbn.com)