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: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-09 23:13:05 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!teaser.fr!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: "Robert C. Leif" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: RE: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 23:09:17 -0700 Organization: Newport Instruments Message-ID: Reply-To: rleif@rleif.com NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 1063174334 64580 137.194.161.2 (10 Sep 2003 06:12:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 06:12:14 +0000 (UTC) To: "'chris'" , Return-Path: X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5329 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 In-Reply-To: Thread-Index: AcN2Ri9WtpKhmTpTTaKHU0RsxQYklQBGadvg X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 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:42338 Date: 2003-09-09T23:09:17-07:00 Amongst the readers of Comp.Lang.Ada, there are persons like me, who are Ada users. When a customer or potential customer tells me how to improve a product, I do NOT tell him or her to build the product. A major problem with Ada is that she has been technology rather than market driven. I have seen requests for suggestions for Ada projects and therefore suggested one that I hoped could be an extension of existing Ada technology. Bob Leif Robert C. Leif, Ph.D. rleif@rleif.com -----Original Message----- From: chris [mailto:spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 8:52 AM To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Robert C. Leif wrote: > C# is an ECMA standard. There every reason to develop a compiler for other > operating systems. It would be very interesting if an Ada version of the > .Net architecture could be made for Linux. The idea is to be able to produce > binaries that would work on both Windows and Linux. The reliability of Ada > or SPARK would provide a very significant marketing advantage. So why aren't you building it, then?