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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a3ca574fc2007430 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,f41f1f25333fa601 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: ken@nrtt.demon.co.uk (Ken Tindell) Subject: Re: Ada and Automotive Industry Date: 1996/11/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 198583934 distribution: world x-nntp-posting-host: nrtt.demon.co.uk references: <55ea3g$m1j@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <3280DA96.15FB@hso.link.com> <1996Nov6.210957.3070@ole.cdac.com> <5683sk$bsc@news.ccit.arizona.edu> organization: Northern Real-Time Technologies Ltd. reply-to: ken@nrtt.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.realtime Date: 1996-11-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) wrote: > Well I do not think you know enough about GCC or GNAT for your skeptical > viewpoint to be significant. I still have seen no one make a cogent > technical argument that supports this viewpoint. Ken says that it > must be impossible because he saw one half baked poor attempt, you > sayt that you are skeptical without even that much to back up your > skepticism. I should be very careful about calling people's software half-baked merely because it doesn't perform very well. A case of one kitchen utensil calling another "black"... > As to the huge market opportunity, I do not see it at all. You cannot > guage a particular Ada market by counting the number of processors sold, If I recall the start of this, some people from the Ada community were suggesting that the automotive industry all adopt Ada for their hardware. Now the argument appears to be that the automotive industry shouldn't use Ada because there aren't going to be any compilers...