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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada Operating System
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 12:46:50 -0500
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So how exactly is GNAT's existance dependent on C++?

-CRM

"tony gair" <tonygair@nounsolitations.btinternet.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
> news:3C73F480.5010806@mail.com...
> > Joel Sherrill wrote:
> > > I have always enjoyed the irony that C/C++ supporters enhancing RTEMS
> > > are improving it as an Ada run-time. :)
> >
> > It's not really ironic. Remember that, while the Ada world thinks of
> > C/C++ as the enemy and the competition, the C/C++ world barely realizes
> > that Ada exists, and certainly wouldn't mind giving it a helping hand.
> >
>
> I think the C++ /Ada rivally is born of some peoples need to gang fight.
> I would look like at C++ and Ada not as friends but as occasional lovers
> who don't use any contraception.
> Ada and C++ offspring  include
> 1) GNAT translator
> 2) Gtkada
> 3) ......
>
> GNAT and GTKada would not exist in their present useful form without
> C++
>
> and many C++ programmers would not exist if their planes or trains or
> automobiles
> had not used Ada with their subsystems.
>
> PS you could also say there would be a lot more innocent civilians around
> without
> Ada or C++ supported weapon systems.
>
>
>