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,d6f7b92fd11ab291 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-16 10:38:59 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out1.nntp.be!propagator2-sterling!news-in-sterling.newsfeed.com!tdsnet-transit!newspeer.tds.net!news.binc.net!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Crosspost: Help wanted from comp.compilers Date: 16 Jul 2003 12:38:56 -0500 Organization: LJK Software Message-ID: References: <1058275843.720814@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <3F158832.1040206@attbi.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: eisner.encompasserve.org X-Trace: grandcanyon.binc.net 1058377082 8987 192.135.80.34 (16 Jul 2003 17:38:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@binc.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 17:38:02 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:40345 Date: 2003-07-16T12:38:56-05:00 List-Id: In article <3F158832.1040206@attbi.com>, "Robert I. Eachus" writes: > Hyman Rosen wrote: > >> Here's some evidence. I have no idea about its quality. >> Given the unfortunate lack of a worldwide web in the 80s, >> it's not clear where to search for more data. Looking at >> some of the links below, I think a big problem was that >> many of the systems forced all dependents of a file to be >> recompiled when the file was recompiled, regardless of >> whether the source had changed. > > If you understood Ada, you would understand that all of the "evidence" > you supplied confirmes what we have said. The issue going into the Ada > 9X process was that tools that tried to short-cut the Ada recompilation > rules were tried--and they were much worse than the problem. VAX/DEC/Compaq Ada with "smart recompilation" works quite well for me. Or is there some other sort of approach you can describe.