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: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-28 16:05:35 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-01!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!not-for-mail From: Robert A Duff Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X (Ada.Sockets) Date: 28 May 2003 19:05:33 -0400 Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA Message-ID: References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> <3ED4A94C.2020501@noplace.com> <3ed4c9a2@news.wineasy.se> <3ED4EB4E.6050108@cogeco.ca> <3ED52455.8020307@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: pcls4.std.com 1054163133 2314 199.172.62.241 (28 May 2003 23:05:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 23:05:33 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37955 Date: 2003-05-28T19:05:33-04:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" writes: > If everyone/most insists that the only "standard" components are those for > embedded systems, then Ada is truly doomed from the general purpose > computing sense. Right, and people need to learn a language in a "general purpose" environment before they start writing hard real-time embedded systems in it. To be successful in the embedded market, a language needs to be useful for normal desk-top applications, too. - Bob