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: f891f,9d58048b8113c00f X-Google-Attributes: gidf891f,public X-Google-Thread: 10261c,2e71cf22768a124d X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,9d58048b8113c00f X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e71cf22768a124d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: next "big" language?? (disagree) Date: 1996/06/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 158491344 references: <4p0fdd$4ml@news.atlantic.net> <4p1l65$35qi@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal.misc,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-06-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: " _Any_ platform? You mean I could fire it up on my little 68020-powered Mac with its expansive 4MB of memory and galactic 80MB hard drive and enjoy the full benefits of Ada's rich set of features? Or is there a cost to having a language that does everything, an environment that does everything, and a compiler that does everything?" No, you cannot run Ada on arbitrary obsolete machines, but you certainly can run Ada on typical current Mac's and PC's. You actually aren't too far away from being able to run Ada on your machine. Buy a bit more memory and an external drive, and there is a 68K version of Mac/Ada