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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,eb35be86b1c0bdcb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-12-19 10:01:26 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: THAAD Study on Ada Viability Message-ID: References: <90lj4s$8h7$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <918u24$8ms$1@neptunium.btinternet.com> <91aem6$jhf$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A3E6626.E1EB9369@psu.edu> <91o10t$k9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 19 Dec 2000 13:01:19 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 977248883 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:01:23 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 18:01:23 GMT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3261 Date: 2000-12-19T13:01:19-05:00 List-Id: In article <91o10t$k9$1@nnrp1.deja.com>, Robert Dewar writes: > In article <3A3E6626.E1EB9369@psu.edu>, > "Robert L. Spooner" 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.