From: dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Ada front end technology
Date: 1997/07/05
Date: 1997-07-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.868113402@merv> (raw)
(other newsgroups trimmed, the original thread on is ADA as good for ...
is far too heavily cross-posted!)
Jon said
<<What this _really_ means is that a) finally someone somewhere produced
a truely reusable _and_ non-trivial "component" and b) finally some
others have woke up to the fact that "rolling your own" really sucks.
>>
Jon is really confused on his history here. Intermetric's approach of
generating a front end that can be sold and used for rehostings is
hardly new. DDCI, Alsys, and Verdix were all in this business, as well
as other vendors with considerable success. For example, Alsys sold its
front end to Unisys and to HP. Many other such deals were concluded.
It is nice to see Intermetrics continue this tradition, but it is not
a new invention that someone "finally somewhere produced". Many of the
Ada 83 technologies were designed to be portable in this sense, and
the fact that they succeeded is seen in the many Ada 83 products that
used third party front ends.
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