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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 108abf,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid108abf,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d3bcc180a8b0eea4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: andreas@baloney.org (Harry Andreas) Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests] Date: 2000/01/13 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 572349336 References: <387C8859.621FA20B@netscape.net> <387CC1C0.4C57E34C@quadruscorp.com> <387CEE4A.3965@Ganymede.com> <85j53h$ic0@chronicle.concentric.net> X-Complaints-To: news@icg.raytheon.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 947809929 147.16.144.157 (Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:32:09 CST) Organization: Raytheon Company NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 18:32:09 CST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,rec.aviation.military Date: 2000-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <85j53h$ic0@chronicle.concentric.net>, "David Tannen" wrote: > I have been involved in maintaining code (about 1msloc) that > targeted three different processors and ran on three different > hosts (9 combinations). With all of that code we had about > 90% of the code in common and 10% varied because of the > platform or the target h/w. > > Ada is a very portable language and the features it provides > make it extremely portable. If an application isn't portable > that is fault of the developers and most importantly the > managers and PMs for that project. This has pretty much been our experience, too, and is what I was alluding to in a prior message. Ada can be written to be portable if care is taken to make it happen. And on this program it was. -- Harry Andreas the engineering raconteur replace baloney with computer to reply