Re: Fun with History: “Why wasn't Ada83 object oriented?”

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:23:46 +0100, Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org> a  
écrit:
> I remember using Ada as a design language and implementing in assembler!
> Led to some interesting rumours ... and produced a rock-solid product (1
> bug since the first release in about 1985, fixed in 1986).
Talking about designing in a language and implementing in another, I am  
seeking for any pointers about designing in SML and implementing in Ada.  
Not that I have any trouble with this (I know a bit what can be mapped and  
what cannot easily be), just that I feel this would be profitable to read  
about other's experiences with this.

By the way, I do too believe if one want to implement in C or assembly,  
that's indeed profitable to first design in Ada (if really Ada is not an  
option at implementation stage for some weird reasons). But then the  
design have to be checked, so I guess it is compiled in some way, so why  
not use the compiled product instead? Due to a not available platform?  
What platform then? Or else there may be other reasons, then could you  
tell more about these reasons?

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“Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.” [1]
“Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.” [1]
[1]: Epigrams on Programming — Alan J. — P. Yale University