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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,8aceff7492b1d75a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-24 06:47:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!sfo2-feed1.news.digex.net!intermedia!news-out.spamkiller.net!propagator-la!news-in-la.newsfeeds.com!news-in.superfeed.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <9okttn$o26$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: ada project Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:47:20 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:47:20 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13282 Date: 2001-09-24T13:47:20+00:00 List-Id: In article <9okttn$o26$1@geraldo.cc.utexas.edu>, Bobby D. Bryant says... > >In article , "Aba >A�over" wrote: > >> Our professor told us that we have to >> make a software project that would be able to >> show the powers of the Ada >> language compared to the >> other programming languages. Can you please >> give me some ideas on what >> types of software project >> we can do in order to show this? > >Show off the built-in support for distributed computing and >multitasking. I'd second that. If you want to show off Ada's capabilities, you'll need to pick a tasking or distributed example. If you pick tasking, pretty much any compiler will do. But if you want to do a distributed example, right now only Gnat (the GNU Ada compiler) supports it properly. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com