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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-08 12:50:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: aek@vib.usr.pu.ru (Alexander Kopilovitch) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 8 Sep 2003 12:50:45 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <9keolvs9tjbbbuv1ndnsr69af7mtddemhk@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.152.65.188 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1063050645 16766 127.0.0.1 (8 Sep 2003 19:50:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Sep 2003 19:50:45 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42290 Date: 2003-09-08T19:50:45+00:00 List-Id: Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote: > though JVM is close to useless, it could be a great lever to > persuade customers to switch to Ada. The main obstacle with our > customers is unavailability of Ada compilers for many platforms. They > will not appear without customer demands. And there will be no such > demands, I know my customers. At the same time many of these potential > platforms have JVM. The rest is clear, I suppose. Why take all the mess and inefficiency of that JVM? Why not use Ada-to-C translation step? As far as I understand, the SofCheck has and can supply you that technology/toolset. And you may tell your customers that this is simply a great way to achive both goodies in one bottle: good high-level OO language for development and maintenance, and at the same time fashionable restricted C for deployment on targets. Alexander Kopilovitch aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia