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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,936b98ceff0d9f3e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-04 05:29:50 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Beard, Frank Randolph CIV" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: One language environment don't have future Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 08:15:56 -0500 Organization: ENST, France Message-ID: Reply-To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1044364570 30257 137.194.161.2 (4 Feb 2003 13:16:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 13:16:10 +0000 (UTC) To: "comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway" Return-Path: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.5762.3 content-class: urn:content-classes:message X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: One language environment don't have future Thread-Index: AcLMRHpm9pQ63q61TvKpaiIQKJRWNQABpohQ X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Feb 2003 13:16:00.0239 (UTC) FILETIME=[8F88DFF0:01C2CC4F] X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1 Precedence: list List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail to news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33760 Date: 2003-02-04T08:15:56-05:00 -----Original Message----- From: Preben Randhol [mailto:randhol+news@pvv.org] spam@not.come wrote: >> I think what time of traditional language system is gone.=20 >> The successfull future systems will be like .Net - one development=20 >> environment for many call-compatible languages, with single runtime,=20 >> single language-neitral set of libraries, single language-neitral=20 >> OS interface.=20 > Sounds to me like you are talking about several languages one = executable > standard? > > Besides how will your VB programmer be able to change a part of a > project written in C++/Ada/whatever unless he also learns this = language? I think he's talking about the development environment and not the = language. Sort of like what DEC did with their systems. If memory serves me = correctly, every language (Fortran, C, Pascal, Ada, ...) compiled to an = intermediate language. Their debugger looked and worked the same no matter which one = you were using. So, when you switched languages, all you really had to = learn was the new language. So, I guess you would come in, select a language, develop with it, and = then compile to the intermediate. Frank