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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public From: Matthew Heaney Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434237924 Sender: matt@mheaney.ni.net References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <36A37219.72198FBE@west.raytheon.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 17:51:39 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: For the real scoop, you'll have to ask Tucker directly. Ken Keys writes: > Matthew Heaney wrote: > > > > This is a weak argument. The Ada front end marketed by AverStar > > (formerly Intermetrics) emits human-readable C code, and therefore you > > Well it is readable by a C compiler. "Human-readable" is another matter. > > > can use it where-ever there's a C compiler available. If you want a > > Not necessarily. There are, for instance, C compilers available for > certain 8 bit micros where not every program that can be compiled can be > run on the target. Writing a program that will actually run requires > some concessions on the part of the programmer. The Ada translator, not > being aware of these concessions might not emit C code which can be > compiled into a runable program. Moreover, it could not be considered a > validated Ada implementation if the target didn't have enough resources > to support the full spectrum of Ada language features. > > KLK -- Those who believe in the supernatural should be required to learn computer programming. This would force them to discover that things which appear at first to be completely mysterious and incomprehensible, in fact have a logical (and usually simple) explanation. --J.B.R. Yant