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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f40056d015b2ae33 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.bt.com!news.bt.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 07:42:44 -0600 From: Brian Drummond Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suggestions for topics in an Ada course? Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:53:35 +0000 Reply-To: brian@shapes.demon.co.uk Message-ID: References: <4737291e$0$27064$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <47383b63$0$27066$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> <47391a9e$0$27037$4d3efbfe@news.sover.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/32.534 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.132.209.196 X-AuthenticatedUsername: NoAuthUser X-Trace: sv3-ulnk5dzziVnBQuMMhWJDEuHQm8BiQouXACZILM8ZRq+vIASw93uWDfhjb0YSBUswfsHeypzGJFA4pSV!jB4VF2OPFdQ1jUmruutLjMqkX1Ltv6TaMjIyZ7CcAl83z6ayYm0BjIuxSrUvzueMsaofE9fnvv7L!CB29 X-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@btinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.36 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18346 Date: 2007-11-13T13:53:35+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:31:48 -0500, "Peter C. Chapin" 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