Re: THAAD Study on Ada Viability

[Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <91o10t$k9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:
> In article <3A3E6626.E1EB9369@psu.edu>,
>   "Robert L. Spooner" <rls19@psu.edu> wrote:
> 
>> (At least they had GNAT develop a version of Ada 95 for the
>> alpha under VMS.)
> 
> Note that the ingrediants for GNAT on Vax/VMS were always in
> place, so this would have been a practical port, but neither
> DEC nor any actual user was willing to fund such an effort,
> so it never happened, and is certainly not going to happen now!

This seems to bring up a significant difference between Ada and Java.
The DEC folks backed away from Java on VAX because of a requirement
for IEEE floating point, which is not in the VAX hardware. Experiments
at emulation were S-L-O-O-O-W.