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: 103376,81cf52699486abe7
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
From: Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Ada95 Strengths/Weaknesses.
Date: 1999/09/28
Message-ID: <x7v4sge4yvo.fsf@pogner.moho>#1/1
X-Deja-AN: 530450303
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
References: <37EED7B8.245C0054@yukyonline.co.yuky>
 <7smp30$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <7sp8m9$a6e$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
 <7spauv$a2g2@news.cis.okstate.edu> <7sqq1k$cpl$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 938553362 nnrp-06:18260 NO-IDENT
 pogner.demon.co.uk:158.152.70.98
Organization: At Home
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
Date: 1999-09-28T00:00:00+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com> writes:

> Also, once you take the time to learn the interface, every Ada compiler
> has a way to rebuild the entire system from sources in one command
> without having to manually track down the dependencies. Anyone who has
> ever tried to build a large "portable" C system can tell you that Ada
> has it all over C in this respect.

True, I suppose, if you have just standard C or Ada, possibly in
multiple directories. But as soon as you need OS dependencies (where
are the Motif libraries? do you even _have_Motif libraries? etc ..)
the language differences pale, in my experience (we use imake under
these circumstances for a mixed Ada/C/C++ system).