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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-23 11:40:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.isc.org!agilent.com!sdd.hp.com!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!news.ucsd.edu!not-for-mail From: Dr Chaos Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died (was): 64 bit addressing and OOP Followup-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:40:06 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Univ of Calif San Diego Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0302250710.5549baaf@posting.google.com> <3E5C7033.BD5DC462@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0302260618.7506cba7@posting.google.com> <3E5CF5C6.84822F57@adaworks.com> <8qkczsAcGcn+Ew83@nildram.co.uk> <3EA04A1E.CAFC1FEF@adaworks.com> <9fa75d42.0304230515.48064263@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lyapunov.ucsd.edu X-Trace: news1.ucsd.edu 1051123206 29066 132.239.222.85 (23 Apr 2003 18:40:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news1.ucsd.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 18:40:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62571 comp.object:61713 comp.lang.ada:36429 misc.misc:13614 Date: 2003-04-23T18:40:06+00:00 List-Id: On 23 Apr 2003 06:15:57 -0700, soft-eng wrote: > > You must live in a different world from me -- I look > around, and from the web-browser to the newsreaders > to the email software to the software transporting > your packets full of Ada praise to the software > controlling the switching stations enroute to... > > You don't like Windows, so you must be using > what? Unix and X-Windows? Written/extended/in Ada? > Surely Ada was there when most of X-Windows > and Motif happened? Or at least when the > CD-ROM device drivers were being written? No, there were no free Ada compilers and the native interface to the operating system (Unix) required being able to parse not just syntax but semantics of C include files. > What now did you say these very expensive > Ada projects actually do? -- --------------------------------------------- Matthew Kennel, mkennel@ucsd.edu Institute For Nonlinear Science, UC San Diego ---------------------------------------------