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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a0be06fbc0dd71f1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-FeedAbuse: http://nntpfeed.proxad.net/abuse.pl feeded by 88.191.65.235 Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder2-2.proxad.net!nntpfeed.proxad.net!news.side3.eu!news.motzarella.org!motzarella.org!not-for-mail From: "I. Levashew" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:19:51 +0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: feeder.motzarella.org U2FsdGVkX1+UmU9FgGfE58TWmNVljH49/oEIgQvq2vDBWitGy9DtoROp+efhim+BJEJN2djvtflp66lNE0Hv9dcTR1v+56SNiowAL4yY/jfupu9gItTVJwiNPznIGVsq9NBijBtBcvwVapTuUOjUng== X-Complaints-To: Please send complaints to abuse@motzarella.org with full headers NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:17:02 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <20071229040639.f753f982.coolzone@it.dk> X-Auth-Sender: U2FsdGVkX19DkScGBScoe1MF1IEKX7rIkeFsu+doYBbJRs8LbzrKNg== Cancel-Lock: sha1:rZV6blUYUUnJAwmsmjekzhs0FQA= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19062 Date: 2007-12-29T22:19:51+06:00 List-Id: Rico Secada wrote: > My study shows, from searching around different mailing list archives > on GNU/Linux and BSD, that people are very attracted towards Ada, but > because of a poor implementation on different platforms when compared > to C and C++ people stay away and focus on those languages instead. Consider tolerance of C++ programmers to their compiler and Ada programmers to their one. Maybe implementations are just on the same level :) > Problems with GNU GNAT and platform independence seems to be the one > major reason why Ada isn't a moving target. Confirmed. Personally, I don't care. Even if the OS I use is unsupported. Currently I'm happy with Debian4/VMWare (native X11). > I would like your comments on this please! There is one promising project, Open LINA. My hopes are tied with it.