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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/10 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 692042672 Sender: ohk@gong10.clustra.com References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BC243.4A9CFC90@cadwin.com> <3A0C0BEE.347F659C@acm.org> X-Complaints-To: abuse@enitel.no X-Trace: news.telia.no 973868505 195.204.160.194 (Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:01:45 CET) Organization: Enitel Internet Public Access NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:01:45 CET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic 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. > > > > -- > ====================================================================== > Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ > Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m > Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ > > "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey > and car keys to teenage boys." > > -- P. J. O'Rourke > ====================================================================== > > -- Kabelsalat ist gesund. Ole-Hj. Kristensen