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From: bruns@tetibm3.ee.TU-Berlin.DE (Warner Bruns)
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Subject: Re: Silicon Valley techies suit up Army with sleeker gear
Date: 12 Feb 2002 01:42:57 GMT
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In article <a492rd$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu>, David Starner
<dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu> writes:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 13:27:00 GMT, Jim Rogers
<jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> > And why was Windows CE the only choice for operating systems?
> > We all know there are other real time operating systems on the market.
> > We also know that many of those other real time operating systems
> > support Ada.
> 
> Do you chose your OS based on which languages are supported with it? Or
> do you chose your language based on which OS it works on? In an optimal
> world, you wouldn't be forced to make that decision. In real life, on
> desktop systems, I find myself picking the OS and chosing the languages
> to use based on that. I don't do things in Visual Basic or PL/1 or
> Fortran 95 in part because Linux doesn't have a free compiler for me to
> use. Such is life.
>  
> -- 
> David Starner / Давид Старнзр - starner@okstate.edu
> Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
> What we've got is a blue-light special on truth. It's the hottest thing 
> with the youth. -- Information Society, "Peace and Love, Inc."

 This is wrong.
 For Linux on Alpha, Compaq gives you at least free access to 
 a Fortran-95 Compiler which is of very high quality.
 For Linux on Intel-x86 or Itanium, Intel gives you free access
 to their compilers, which are at least usable.

 Warner