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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-24 13:37:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kaz@ashi.footprints.net (Kaz Kylheku) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Date: 24 Apr 2003 13:37:35 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304240446.493ca906@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.114.87.129 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1051216655 1627 127.0.0.1 (24 Apr 2003 20:37:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 24 Apr 2003 20:37:35 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62619 comp.object:61859 comp.lang.ada:36506 misc.misc:13656 Date: 2003-04-24T20:37:35+00:00 List-Id: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) wrote in message news:<9fa75d42.0304240446.493ca906@posting.google.com>... > Ok, I am sure a few instances happened. But if you > had to develop device drivers for a living, and if > the language was truly your choice, would you chose Ada as > the language? > > I think the only "yes" answers would be from > people who only know Ada and/or have never > written a device driver. For developing a device driver for an operating system, the best language is that one which all the other drivers are written in and consequently for which there is toolchain and run-time support.