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=0.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_MUA_MOZILLA autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,6e045a5e739e2c80 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.135.231 with SMTP id pv7mr9248595pbb.8.1330293827576; Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:03:47 -0800 (PST) Path: h9ni12771pbe.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Re=Fun_with_History why_wasnt_Ada83_object_oriented Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 23:03:47 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <15362655.665.1330003793505.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pbbox6> <5d2664b3-566a-40a5-910b-ef3460a5f363@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:03:47 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cJo7kSTQUrCFv2/D8KKtqw"; logging-data="9145"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+FgEQp1PuO/a0uFRkEclkx" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 In-Reply-To: <5d2664b3-566a-40a5-910b-ef3460a5f363@do4g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Cancel-Lock: sha1:r068qbm0n16yY85n8I22rKJKOk0= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2012-02-26T23:03:47+01:00 List-Id: 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. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr