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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-30 10:22:32 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!199.45.49.37!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamkiller2.gnilink.net!nwrdny01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Frank J. Lhota" Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304240446.493ca906@posting.google.com> <3EA7E0E3.8020407@crs4.it> <9fa75d42.0304240950.45114a39@posting.google.com> <4a885870.0304291909.300765f@posting.google.com> <416273D61ACF7FEF.82C1D1AC17296926.FF0BFD4934A03813@lp.airnews.net> Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:22:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.154.230.77 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verizon.net X-Trace: nwrdny01.gnilink.net 1051723350 141.154.230.77 (Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:22:30 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:22:30 EDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62940 comp.object:62390 comp.lang.ada:36771 misc.misc:13827 Date: 2003-04-30T17:22:30+00:00 List-Id: "Kaz Kylheku" wrote in message news:cf333042.0304300835.4800e03e@posting.google.com... > If you don't think so, it's only > because you are too absorbed in the arcane details that separate your > favorite high level assembly language from the next one. ??? A language with generics, exceptions and dispatching is still a high-level assembly language???