From: "J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:03:47 +0100
Date: 2012-02-26T23:03:47+01:00 [thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <5d2664b3-566a-40a5-910b-ef3460a5f363@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
Le 26/02/2012 22:56, Gautier write-only a �crit :
> The success of Turbo Pascal was due to a genial idea that the need of
> most programmers are not much having a compiler but having a full
> development tool focused on a quick development cycle. They offered:
> 1) an integrated editor
> 2) a fast native-code compiler (at the expense of compiled code
> quality, but nobody cared)
> Not sure if any Ada compiler - cheap or not - in the whole 80's was
> able to do that.
Meridian was close to that, and was a nice environment (that's the first
one I used for theaching - worked nicely on 386/25 machines).
Too bad Meridian was bought by Verdix, then Verdix was bought by
Rational, and Rational was not interested in low end compilers.
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2012-02-17 17:22 Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-17 17:33 ` Fun with History: ³Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?² Bill Findlay
2012-02-23 13:29 ` Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?” Marco
2012-02-23 16:23 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 16:53 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-23 18:20 ` Simon Wright
2012-02-23 20:32 ` Phil Clayton
2012-02-24 1:14 ` Peter C. Chapin
2012-02-24 21:32 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented tmoran
2012-02-26 14:53 ` Marco
2012-02-26 18:02 ` J-P. Rosen
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2012-02-26 18:28 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-26 21:45 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-27 17:37 ` Adam Beneschan
2012-02-27 20:27 ` Jeffrey Carter
2012-02-26 18:33 ` tmoran
2012-02-26 16:22 ` Marco
2012-03-06 1:48 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-07 10:33 ` Early availability of cheap Ada compilers (Was: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented) Jacob Sparre Andersen
2012-03-07 12:43 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-08 1:42 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 1:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 12:21 ` Simon Clubley
2012-03-09 2:20 ` Randy Brukardt
2012-03-08 9:00 ` anon
2012-03-08 15:32 ` Shark8
[not found] ` <5d2664b3-566a-40a5-910b-ef3460a5f363@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>
2012-02-26 22:03 ` J-P. Rosen [this message]
2012-02-27 1:29 ` Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented tmoran
2012-02-26 22:06 ` Gautier write-only
2012-02-27 2:15 ` anon
2012-02-27 4:05 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2012-02-27 8:41 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2012-03-06 1:40 ` Randy Brukardt
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