From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" <aek@VB1162.spb.edu>
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org
Subject: Re: China
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 01:50:39 +0400 (MSD)
Date: 2004-06-06T01:50:39+04:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.48.1086472297.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <U3jwc.94680$dP1.304778@newsc.telia.net>; from Bj?rn Persson at Sat, 05 Jun 2004 12:32:52 GMT
Bj?rn Persson wrote:
>Do the Chinese even use Ada?
No doubt they do, but you possibly can't find an example - because all
probable uses are either inside a secret military-related project or by
offshore contractor working for some Western company.
>I can imagine several irrational reasons why the Chinese wouldn't like
>Ada, but if they find its support for Chinese too incomplete, then
>that's one very rational reason.
Insufficient support for national alphabet never was an obstacle for use of
a programming language (I can assure you that all mainstream programming
languages flourished in Soviet Union and then Russia without any particular
support for Cyrillic). And anyway, Ada's support for national alphabets isn't
weaker than that of C++ (I hope you don't doubt that Chinese use C/C++ -:) .
Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru
Saint-Petersburg
Russia
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-03 16:23 wide_string and assertions Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-04 3:37 ` Randy Brukardt
2004-06-04 8:49 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-05 8:42 ` Pascal Obry
2004-06-05 17:15 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-04 17:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-05 7:10 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-05 11:37 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-05 17:11 ` Martin Krischik
2004-06-05 18:41 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-08 16:41 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-09 13:19 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-09 15:03 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-09 15:26 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-10 12:25 ` Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-10 13:30 ` Björn Persson
2004-06-05 12:32 ` China Björn Persson
2004-06-05 16:49 ` China, character sets Georg Bauhaus
2004-06-05 21:50 ` Alexander E. Kopilovich [this message]
2004-06-04 20:42 ` wide_string and assertions Nick Roberts
2004-06-06 13:23 ` Björn Persson
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