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- From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
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- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 24 Feb 1996 11:21:22 -0500
- Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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- Ray Toal asks
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- "I would be interested to know if any Ada vendors have released
- Ada compilers with vendor-specific syntax modifications."
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- Certainly not if they are validated, since part of the validation process
- involves a "declaration of conformance" that verifies that you have not
- added non-permissible extensions, and syntax modifications are certainly
- in this category.
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- It would be valid to have extensions under control of a compiler switch,
- but even this is unusual in the Ada arena, since portability is highly
- valued.
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