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- From: ddavenpo@redwood.hac.com (Darren C Davenport)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
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- Date: 7 Feb 1996 21:18:17 GMT
- Organization: Hughes Aircraft Company
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- Ron Collins (collins@thor.tu.hac.com) wrote:
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- : I think you're missing the point. I can buy a C/C++ compiler for a few
- : hundred $$ for just about any platform I can think of. I can get a
- : professional quality C/C++ compiler (GCC) for free for a lot of platforms.
- : And I can use these compilers to write very usefull programs. Being
- : ANSI compliant is nice, but not critical.
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- : An Ada compiler is, by comparison, extremely expensive. And it is not
- : available for quite a few of the machines that I've had to work with.
- : (Example: there was no Ada compiler available for the MAC 3 years ago; I
- : don't know if one is available now. But that job is over, and it was
- : written in the MAC version of C. So what if it's not portable? It only
- : has to run on a MAC).
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- : I really don't care how good Ada is. If I can't find it, or my company
- : can't afford it, it's totally useless to me.
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- GCC has an Ada95 compiler in it. It's free and it's supported.
- The compiler is available via ftp at cs.nyu.edu. More Ada information is
- available at http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/. Also, other compilers are
- available for most platforms. All this info is very easy to find.
-
- Darren Davenport
- Hughes Electronics
- Denver, CO
- ddavenpo@redwood.dn.hac.com
-
- : -- Collins --
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- : The views expressed here are mine alone.
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- : Ron Collins/Hughes Aircraft Company/M20,P20/Tucson Az 85706
- : rcollins@thor.tu.hac.com collins@seagull.rtd.com
- : ยก----
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