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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10db24,fec75f150a0d78f5 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db24,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,df854b5838c3e14 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada Date: 1996/03/26 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 144233851 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <4ikbar$g0k@tpd.dsccc.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu Date: 1996-03-26T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <4iupk7$5t4@tpd.dsccc.com> kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline) writes: > >Kevin does not appear to realize that it is 1996 and that ISO 8652:1995 > >has been out for over a year and that compilers (including Gnat and > >ObjectAda) for it are available. This seems to be why his comments > >are largely out-of-date irrelevant rubbish. > > > > You don't seem to realize that I wasn't talking about 1996. I was > relating my problems developing an Ada application from 1991 to 1994, The reason I wouldn't realize this (along with most others) is that you keep saying it with _present_ tense. > These early problems were a major factor causing Ada's > continuing unpopularity. People tried it. They didn't like it. > Now everything is fixed, but that early taste lingers. Now here issomething that does have a fair degree of truth in it. > BTW, what architectures does ObjectAda support, and will ObjectAda > code compile largely unmodified with Gnat, and vice versa? A Thompson guy could better answer this. I would be surprised if Gnat and ObjectAda didn't compile things with little or no modification. Heck, I've taken large chuncks of VAX Ada and moved them to Gnat with no changes. Of course, these did not have any OS specific stuff in them. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com