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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 17:56:23 GMT
- Organization: DSC Communications Corporation Switch Products Division
- Message-ID: <4iupk7$5t4@tpd.dsccc.com>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <4ikbar$g0k@tpd.dsccc.com> <adaworksDoL573.7vs@netcom.com> <JSA.96Mar21160427@organon.com>
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- In article <JSA.96Mar21160427@organon.com>,
- Jon S Anthony <jsa@organon.com> wrote:
- >In article <adaworksDoL573.7vs@netcom.com> adaworks@netcom.com (AdaWorks) writes:
- >
- >> OK, Kevin,
- >>
- >> I'll give you this one. There were some non-portable workarounds, but
- >> this was a shortcoming of Ada 83. The new ISO Ada standard supports
- >> the ability to pass a function of procedure as an argument.
- >
- >Kevin does not appear to realize that it is 1996 and that ISO 8652:1995
- >has been out for over a year and that compilers (including Gnat and
- >ObjectAda) for it are available. This seems to be why his comments
- >are largely out-of-date irrelevant rubbish.
- >
-
- You don't seem to realize that I wasn't talking about 1996. I was
- relating my problems developing an Ada application from 1991 to 1994,
- and explaining why the issues prevented the use Ada for normal
- desktop applications, at least until the release of GNAT.
- These early problems were a major factor causing Ada's
- continuing unpopularity. People tried it. They didn't like it.
- Now everything is fixed, but that early taste lingers.
-
- BTW, what architectures does ObjectAda support, and will ObjectAda
- code compile largely unmodified with Gnat, and vice versa?
-
-
- --
- Kevin Cline
-