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: 103376,5faad1722103f6a7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 16:02:31 -0500 Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:02:30 -0400 From: "Robert I. Eachus" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <90Stc.15309$be.3117@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net> <40b86431$0$186$edfadb0f@dread11.news.tele.dk> <40B888E0.5040707@noplace.com> <40B8C86A.3050302@noplace.com> <40BE6BFD.8030305@noplace.com> <40BF141F.8020001@noplace.com> <40C38E7C.64564F@notes.udayton.edu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.147.90.114 X-Trace: sv3-wRiqg0Sh5ShqWfj2nVaRcoEOeT0XFalW8ZH3kvLv5OTUaIckW3ZN9FIe1CI0mlBSbysLrkn6fg12qvD!N3H8DH4Apysv7toZTqP1rRULl/Ib87wpf3kcYRXn5GKJH2kilJVsCAZ14UuEvw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1332 Date: 2004-06-09T17:02:30-04:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > BTW, the first Alsys Ada compiler was, if I recall correctly, > written in PL/I. Ada was, and always has been, a far better > language than PL/I, but PL/I could have been improved with > a little effort and cooperation from IBM. However, PL/I, > at that time, had already earned a widespread bad reputation, > much as Ada has today. Overcoming a bad reputation for > a language is almost impossible, even when the language > has improved as much as contemporary Ada. Um, Honeywell delivered a prototype Green compiler to the DoD as part of the "fly off" between Red and Green. Also Honeywell Small Systems--or whatever the division was called that week--developed an Ada cross compiler that ran on Multics, and was written in PL/I, and targeted the Level 6/DPS 6 line of minicomputers. (I worked on that project for several years, mostly on the front-end.) AFAIK though, the first Alsys compiler was written in Ada. At one point was compiled with the DEC Ada compiler. Why? Why not? It saved some time in bootstraping, and eventually, like GNAT it was self-hosting with multiple potential target architectures. -- Robert I. Eachus "The terrorists rejoice in the killing of the innocent, and have promised similar violence against Americans, against all free peoples, and against any Muslims who reject their ideology of murder. Their barbarism cannot be appeased, and their hatred cannot be satisfied. There's only one way to deal with terror: We must confront the enemy and stay on the offensive until these killers are defeated." -- George W. Bush