Re: Ada student homework ?

[Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen <ohk@clustra.com>]

Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> writes:

> You are correct about the Windows/PC/C situation. While you *can* develop apps in Ada for this platform,
> you are swimming against the tide in many respects. The OS interface is C, there are tons of C/C++ oriented

This is also the case with Unix, of course. It's pity that the
compiler vendors in general do not deliver a more complete OS
interface in Ada. And I don't buy the idea that it's just as easy to
to roll your own or use some Posix interface which (hopefully) does
what you need. It may not be a major obstacle to the use of Ada, but
it IS an obstacle.

> development tools, etc. From a market standpoint, you can't afford to ignore the Windows environment. If
> you're going to develop there, you'll have to know C (to some extent) just to use the OS. If you want to
> get to market ahead of your competition, you will need all the leverage you can get - which is generally
> C/C++ tools. Its hard to fight against that.
> 
> MDC
> 
> Nicolas Brunot wrote:
> 
> > For software companies like ours, 99% of our applications world is Windows and C components.
> > If we want to go on writing 99% of our code in Ada, Ada must bring great benefits (It does),
> > but it cannot suffer any weakness in any field towards C, and unfortunately there are still some, and
> > they have to disappear.
> >
> 
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