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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: 1 Apr 1996 17:20:07 GMT
- Organization: DSC Communications Corporation Switch Products Division
- Message-ID: <4jp388$d56@tpd.dsccc.com>
- References: <JSA.96Feb16135027@organon.com> <31582A63.4BE9@east.thomsoft.com> <4jeel1$erh@tpd.dsccc.com> <JSA.96Mar29195546@organon.com>
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- In article <JSA.96Mar29195546@organon.com>,
- Jon S Anthony <jsa@organon.com> wrote:
- >In article <4jeel1$erh@tpd.dsccc.com> kcline@sun132.spd.dsccc.com (Kevin Cline) writes:
- >
- >> >Well, I'll give it a shot. This year, it'll be Wintel, PowerPC/Win NT,
- >> >Sun/Solaris, HP-UX and (I believe) PowerPC/AIX. We also expect Wintel
- >> >cross to 32 bit X86 this year. Various PowerPC and 68K cross early next
- >> >year.
- >> >
- >>
- >> Well, that means that today's ObjectAda would not solve
- >> my 1993 problem: writing a Motif application for SunOS 4.1.3,
- >> Solaris, and SGI IRIX.
- >
- >Other than the GCC C compiler, what C compiler could do this now or in
- >1993? None.
-
- As usual, you missed the point, Jon. Different Ada-83 compiler vendors
- provided different bindings to key functionality like UNIX OS calls
- and X/Motif. Of course these bindings were proprietary.
-
- This was never a problem for C code. ANSI-C compilers have been available
- for every platform you can name for many years, so porting C code from
- one vendor's compiler to another was never a big problem.
-
- >What your point is wrt to the situation today?
-
- 1. I wanted to know if there was something I should have done differently
- back then. Apparently there wasn't. Ada-83 just sucked for non-embedded
- application development.
-
- 2. I wanted to know if the situation had improved.
-
- 3. I wanted to explain to Ada advocates why developing
- portable UNIX applications was impossible with Ada-83.
-
- >Since Ada95 _portably_ interfaces with C,
- >thin bindings give you everything you get with C (or C++).
-
- There is some information I can use.
-
- >Jon Anthony
- >Organon Motives, Inc.
- >1 Williston Road, Suite 4
- >Belmont, MA 02178
-
- With an attitude like Jon's, I would imagine this is a single-employee
- organization.
- --
- Kevin Cline
-