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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!news.wiretrip.org!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news From: Nomen Nescio Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? References: <4bfbdd95$0$6776$9b4e6d93@newsspool3.arcor-online.net> Message-ID: Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 18:24:31 +0200 (CEST) Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11966 Date: 2010-05-25T18:24:31+02:00 List-Id: > Would they all have been using C (K&R C, that is) on non-C > platforms nevertheless, for implementing their compilers? It depends much on the platform. On UNIX, everything was unquestionably written in C, on IBM, unquestionably in assembler. Other platforms, I don't know. I wasn't arguing C is a good choice for anything, nor is C++. I'm a proud Ada bigot like most posters :-) I see no purpose for C or C++ except if you are a UNIX coder, because those OS are written using C.