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- From: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.edu
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 17:50:27 GMT
- Organization: DSC Communications Corporation Switch Products Division
- Message-ID: <4iup93$5d6@tpd.dsccc.com>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4imqofINNn82@keats.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> <4ipbdb$6j7@tpd.dsccc.com> <JSA.96Mar21154344@organon.com>
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- In article <JSA.96Mar21154344@organon.com>,
- Jon S Anthony <jsa@organon.com> wrote:
- >Well, the POSIX bindings have been done for a while now. And they
- >work fine with Gnat. So, I suppose this paragraph is just irrelevant
- >rubbish.
- >
-
- You took my remarks out of context. I was pointing out why Ada is not
- more popular now, and why people had good and sufficient for
- continuing to use C and C++ through the early 1990's. Ada advocates
- seem to attribute to continued use of C and C++ to willful ignorance,
- and that just isn't so. There were serious portability problems with
- the use of Ada for UNIX application development in the days before
- GNAT.
-
- >...
- >It's worked just fine for me on several occasions for this
- >sort of thing. Quite practical.
-
- Perhaps you could tell us more precisely what sort of things you have
- developed. How large was your application? Did you provide a GUI?
- What compiler did you use? When did you write it? Did you port it
- or attempt to port it to multiple varieties of UNIX,
- say SunOS and HP-UX and SGI Irix?
- --
- Kevin Cline
-