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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,37ed89588a753b4c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-13 17:23:23 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nntp.uio.no!nntp.uio.no!tarjeij From: tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no (Tarjei Jensen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ARPA still undermining Ada Date: 12 Oct 94 09:43:55 Organization: University of Oslo, Norway Message-ID: References: <37ab0v$n82@newsbf01.news.aol.com> <37bph1$naq@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <37egd5$2vt@chnews.intel.com> <37eq7q$t5p@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ulrik.uio.no In-reply-to: dewar@cs.nyu.edu's message of 11 Oct 1994 15:49:14 -0400 Date: 1994-10-12T09:43:55+00:00 List-Id: In article <37eq7q$t5p@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: > absolutely, the base technology I was referring to was in these particular > cases g++ (the GNU version of c++). I know of a couple efforts using g++ > where I think that GNAT would at least have been considered if it had been > around! It may sound silly to many people, but we have found that some of the free software available is not cost effective. E.g. we pay for the DEC C++ (or C cludge, cludge as I prefer to pronounce it) compiler instead of using the GNU C++ compiler. The reason is simply that the DEC product is better at catching errors and generates correct code. What I am trying to get accross is that it might be worth paying hundreds or even thousands of dollars for a product if it works better than something that is free. With that perspective free migth be too expensive. So choosing C++ instead of Ada might be viewed as as mismanagement of research funds. However I won't deny anybody the right to spend their time debugging instead of researching/programming. Greetings, -- // Tarjei T. Jensen - if it ain't broken, fix it anyway! // tarjeij@ulrik.uio.no || +47 51 563411 // Support you local rescue centre: GET LOST! // Working, but not speaking for the Norwegian Hydrographic Service.