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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.68.137.163 with SMTP id qj3mr8298900pbb.4.1378147505976; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 11:45:05 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.49.99.37 with SMTP id en5mr7516qeb.8.1378147505832; Mon, 02 Sep 2013 11:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Path: border1.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!n2no16629996pbg.1!news-out.google.com!rn2ni53289pbc.1!nntp.google.com!n2no16629992pbg.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 11:45:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <6c58fae4-6c34-4d7a-ab71-e857e55897c0@x6g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.43.197.131; posting-account=g4n69woAAACHKbpceNrvOhHWViIbdQ9G NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.43.197.131 References: <19595886.4450.1332248078686.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@vbbfy7> <2012032020582259520-rblove@airmailnet> <12ee9bc5-3bdf-4ac0-b805-5f10b3859ff4@googlegroups.com> <6c58fae4-6c34-4d7a-ab71-e857e55897c0@x6g2000vbj.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Ada advocacy From: Martin Injection-Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 18:45:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Original-Bytes: 1867 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:183260 Date: 2013-09-02T11:45:05-07:00 List-Id: Third (at least)... Pascal/D80 for Ericsson's D80 processor...developed by Ada's own John Barnes! My first "pro" job used this...fantastic language, fantastic tools and a fantastic processor. 25 years later and we're just about at the same context switch speed on PowerPC/i7 boards.