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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e5bfa021bc026369 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-01-26 17:12:31 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wn11feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: David Starner Subject: Re: Personality Conflict was: why Ada is so unpopular ? User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity. (Debian GNU/Linux)) Message-Id: Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <401524D4.CBDA0658@mitre.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:31 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.72.183.68 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1075165951 12.72.183.68 (Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:31 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 01:12:31 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:4862 Date: 2004-01-27T01:12:31+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 10:30:46 -0500, Stephen Leake wrote: > > What "support" is missing? In particular, what support is missing from > Ada that is available in other languages? Not in the vendor libraries > for those languages, but in the language itself? That seems like an artificial distinction. If my C code works on every Unix platform, why should I worry about whether the code depends on C functions or on POSIX ones? Further out, is it not an advantage that a language have libraries regularly available to do something where Ada has no corresponding libraries? Or that a C library is well-maintained where an Ada binding to that library is not?