From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Microsoft is considering moving to Rust; potential opportunity for Ada2020
Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2019 10:11:21 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2019-10-02T10:11:21-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Tuesday, October 1, 2019 at 2:04:07 AM UTC-6, Mehdi Saada wrote:
> > About the time Ada83 was standardized, Microsoft emphatically declared
> > that it would never (never!) support or have anything to do with Ada.
> Really ? What the heck happened with them ? How come did they start harboring such hate?
I don't know; but some years ago I had the fortune of talking to someone who had been involved in a company doing an evaluation/audit of the Windows code -- around version 2, or perhaps 3.1 (before Windows for Workgroups 3.11) -- and he related to me that his company recommended a rewrite in Ada.
Of course Microsoft didn't follow the recommendation, but it's interesting that they had the recommendation made to them.
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-17 18:17 Microsoft is considering moving to Rust; potential opportunity for Ada2020 Optikos
2019-07-17 18:53 ` Maciej Sobczak
2019-07-17 22:59 ` Optikos
2019-07-17 23:35 ` Paul Rubin
2019-07-18 0:29 ` Optikos
2019-07-19 22:07 ` Simon Wright
2019-07-19 22:12 ` Paul Rubin
2019-08-06 17:01 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-08-06 17:49 ` Brad Moore
2019-08-07 9:09 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-08-08 2:13 ` Jere
2019-08-08 9:25 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-08-06 17:56 ` Optikos
2019-08-06 20:04 ` Brad Moore
2019-08-07 9:07 ` Alejandro R. Mosteo
2019-07-25 18:40 ` G. B.
2019-07-26 14:12 ` Shark8
2019-08-15 15:39 ` Norman Worth
2019-10-01 8:04 ` Mehdi Saada
2019-10-02 17:11 ` Shark8 [this message]
2019-07-26 14:11 ` Shark8
2019-07-27 20:03 ` Optikos
2019-07-27 20:17 ` Optikos
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