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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.36.146.5 with SMTP id l5mr4065753itd.0.1469207682020; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:14:42 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.13.51 with SMTP id 48mr346498oti.7.1469207681989; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:14:41 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!f6no3571607ith.0!news-out.google.com!d130ni11110ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no3568098ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:14:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=209.6.150.53; posting-account=Go6kmQoAAACKWg_6T5TjAYpv4OMGyXMt NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.6.150.53 References: <866e6e94-6e49-4b73-8840-9d0987254253@googlegroups.com> <621e5847-240e-4b6f-8a2a-8ee0820823a2@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: why is java so widespread when ada is free? makes 0 sense From: endlessboomcapitalism@gmail.com Injection-Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 17:14:42 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:31126 Date: 2016-07-22T10:14:41-07:00 List-Id: On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 4:42:02 PM UTC-4, riea...@comcast.net wrote: > On Friday, June 10, 2016 at 1:51:55 AM UTC-4, Patrick Jakubowski wrote: > > Well. To simply say. Ada was so much ahead of its time that it missed i= ts window of opportunity. >=20 > In one sense very, very true. There were a lot of discussions--and event= ually existence proofs about Ada compilers running on machines with 256k by= tes of memory. (In some cases, 128 words of addressable memory.) In addit= ion, early Ada compilers were not as smart about compilation orders as they= have become since. >=20 > I won't go into PC family memory and addressing, just say that the Alsys = compiler which came with a memory card--and the software to make it run on = 80286 based machines--was by far the best (but expensive) Ada solution for = PCs. It was quite a while before you could assume that a PC-compatible mac= hine was running in 32-bit mode with virtual memory. >=20 > In that gap, Java was sold as "write once, run anywhere" and it could in = fact be installed on most PCs whatever their CPU and memory organization. with gonga and free gnat(?) gcc ish compiler I can recreated amazon on smal= l scale?