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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FROM_WORDY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-01 16:37:34 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!howland.erols.net!nntp.flash.net!news.flash.net!not-for-mail From: "Ken Garlington" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <39FDE9E4.35F615A6@netwood.net> <39FE461D.275F1363@ix.netcom.com> <8tmt7o$vbj$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <39FEFBF8.D62508B8@netwood.net> <39FF8255.20ACC687@acm.org> <3A006EB1.BA1B841F@averstar.com> <3A007746.E656E341@netwood.net> Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 00:37:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.215.70.133 X-Complaints-To: abuse@flash.net X-Trace: news.flash.net 973125453 216.215.70.133 (Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:37:33 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 18:37:33 CST Organization: FlashNet Communications, http://www.flash.net Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:1698 Date: 2000-11-02T00:37:33+00:00 List-Id: "E. Robert Tisdale" wrote in message news:3A007746.E656E341@netwood.net... : Originally, I expected that there would be a great deal of interest : in an Ada language binding for the VSIPL API standard : but almost no one -- including the participants : from DARPA and the U.S. Navy -- was interested. You may want to read the full thread to get caught up. In any case, hopefully everyone now understands that, with acquisition reform, defense contractors have a lot more latitude on the decisions they make in the software area. Given that defense contractors do a large percentage of the defense work, it's not a good idea to limit your defense marketing to the Government. : There are still almost no really good Ada compilers : for any embedded DSP chips : so I don't expect movement on an Ada language binding : for the VSIPL API standard any time in the near future. Actually, there is an Ada compiler for the SHARC, and apparently more than one Ada compiler that can generate C code compatible with TI DSP processors.