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- From: jsa@organon.com (Jon S Anthony)
- Subject: Re: C/C++ knocks the crap out of Ada
- In-Reply-To: kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com's message of 22 Mar 1996 17:56:23 GMT
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- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 01:54:17 GMT
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- In article <4iupk7$5t4@tpd.dsccc.com> kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline) writes:
-
- > >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are largely out-of-date irrelevant rubbish.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,
-
- The reason I wouldn't realize this (along with most others) is that
- you keep saying it with _present_ tense.
-
- > 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.
-
- Now here issomething that does have a fair degree of truth in it.
-
-
- > BTW, what architectures does ObjectAda support, and will ObjectAda
- > code compile largely unmodified with Gnat, and vice versa?
-
- A Thompson guy could better answer this. I would be surprised
- if Gnat and ObjectAda didn't compile things with little or no
- modification. Heck, I've taken large chuncks of VAX Ada and moved
- them to Gnat with no changes. Of course, these did not have any
- OS specific stuff in them.
-
- /Jon
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