From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course?
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:53:35 +0000
Date: 2007-11-13T13:53:35+00:00 [thread overview]
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:31:48 -0500, "Peter C. Chapin"
<pchapin@sover.net> wrote:
>Brian Drummond wrote:
>
>> IMO C++ has done us one big favour.
>>
>> I was put off Ada for about 20 years becuse of rumours about its size
>> and complexity... with the acceptance of C++, that argument is no longer
>> valid.
>
>I hear this. Twenty years ago we ran an Ada compiler on a 8088 based
>system with 640 Kbytes of RAM running MS-DOS (Janus Ada). I seriously
>doubt if one could squeeze a C++98 compiler into such a small box. Ada
>might have looked pretty big in 1987. It doesn't any more.
Compared with Modula-2, which would fit into 64k for CP/M (FTL) and
really fly under MS/DOS (JPI/Topspeed) it was probably true then. But
the world has changed...
- Brian
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-11 16:09 Suggestions for topics in an Ada course? Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-11 17:15 ` Jeffrey Creem
2007-11-11 18:29 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-11 19:32 ` Larry Kilgallen
2007-11-12 11:33 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 0:02 ` Ed Falis
2007-11-12 11:44 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 0:59 ` Steve
2007-11-12 4:29 ` wilson
2007-11-12 11:39 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 13:34 ` Brian Drummond
2007-11-13 3:31 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-13 13:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2007-11-13 13:53 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2007-11-12 7:42 ` adaworks
2007-11-12 11:40 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 11:57 ` Stefan Lucks
2007-11-12 11:54 ` Stefan Lucks
2007-11-13 3:27 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-12 11:56 ` anon
2007-11-12 15:53 ` John McCormick
2007-11-12 16:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-11-12 16:13 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-11-12 17:38 ` adaworks
2007-11-12 18:12 ` Hyman Rosen
2007-11-12 17:45 ` adaworks
2007-11-12 20:45 ` Jerry Petrey
2007-11-13 3:33 ` Peter C. Chapin
2007-11-13 5:17 ` jimmaureenrogers
2007-11-16 15:48 ` Marco
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