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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-11 13:24:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!out.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in.nuthinbutnews.com!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030419 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) References: <9fa75d42.0305080606.70eebec@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090522.29c56a04@posting.google.com> <3EBEAEB5.2B2C8AEF@adaworks.com> In-Reply-To: <3EBEAEB5.2B2C8AEF@adaworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:24:03 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.84.205.197 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1052684643 162.84.205.197 (Sun, 11 May 2003 16:24:03 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 16:24:03 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37196 Date: 2003-05-11T20:24:03+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > It was not the language that was un-usable, but the > implementations often fell short of what was necessary > for a given platform. Over in the C++ newsgroups people like to kid Andrei Alexandrescu for being the only person in the world who can make a living writing C++ libraries that no compiler in existence can compile.