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: f43e6,899fc98b2883af4a X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-15 23:23:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!lnsnews.lns.cornell.edu!newsstand.cit.cornell.edu!ngpeer.news.aol.com!newsfeed1!bredband!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc,comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Quality systems (Was: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died)) Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:23:56 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305090612.261d5a5c@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305091549.48b9c5d9@posting.google.com> <7507f79d.0305121629.5b8b7369@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305130543.60381450@posting.google.com> <254c16a.0305140549.3a87281b@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0305141747.5680c577@posting.google.com> <1053027582.984315@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1053066236 26892 129.241.83.78 (16 May 2003 06:23:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 06:23:56 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:63887 comp.object:63512 comp.lang.ada:37377 misc.misc:14217 comp.software-eng:19219 Date: 2003-05-16T06:23:56+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > Preben Randhol wrote: >> Or in other words you can probably make a huge complex system in >> assembly code, but it will take you a couple of decades to get the job >> done. > > I don't see why you say that. Huge complex systems have been written > in assembly code in considerably less than decades. Writing in assembly > isn't an especially difficult proposition. OK, so why don't they still make large complex systems in pure assembly then? It is not because it takes a lot longer than any other high level language? That it is much harder to maintain? By the way do you have any examples? -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/