From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Array mappings
Date: 18 Dec 1994 22:46:04 -0500
Date: 1994-12-18T22:46:04-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3d2vls$pj7@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3d2qk0$qop@felix.seas.gwu.edu
"An Ada implementor who really cared would have delivered [more reliable
compilers]"
This is really silly. THe implication that bugs in early Ada compilers were
due to lack of care and concern for specific markets has no basis in fact.
Ada has always had extremely high reliability requirements in all markets
(one can argue that the embedded real-time market is a much higher
reliability-requirement market than numerical computation). Sure early
Ada compilers had bugs (early anything compilers have bugs), but this
was a matter of maturity, and you can be sure that all Ada vendors were
working extremely hard to improve reliability. Perhaps they did not succeed
as well as you might hope, but to ascribe that to deliberate lack of care
won't wash."
If you rest your case on this weak and unsupportable observation, it is
indeed a weak case!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1994-12-19 3:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1994-12-06 13:06 Why don't large companies use Ada? Paige Vinall
1994-12-07 14:15 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-12-10 20:55 ` Array mappings Michael Feldman
1994-12-13 15:01 ` Norman H. Cohen
1994-12-16 18:55 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-17 0:43 ` Keith Thompson
1994-12-17 17:17 ` Reaching traditional engineering, was: " Michael Feldman
1994-12-18 1:34 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-19 2:11 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-21 16:17 ` Kevin Weise
1994-12-21 13:29 ` David Emery
1994-12-22 2:40 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-22 10:20 ` Reaching traditional engineering Introspect Technologies
1994-12-22 20:49 ` Richard Riehle
1994-12-23 9:09 ` Peter Hermann
1994-12-27 3:37 ` Reaching traditional engineering, was: Array mappings Richard G. Hash
1994-12-17 20:42 ` Rolf Ebert
1994-12-19 2:19 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-19 3:46 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1994-12-19 5:53 ` Mark S. Hathaway
1994-12-19 14:27 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-22 17:08 ` Richard G. Hash
1995-01-03 3:26 ` Fred McCall
1994-12-17 17:41 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-18 0:03 ` Dik T. Winter
1994-12-19 2:08 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-19 2:01 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-19 3:41 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-20 3:23 ` Michael Feldman
1994-12-20 14:09 ` Robert Dewar
1994-12-19 19:10 ` Matt Kennel
1994-12-09 2:31 ` Why don't large companies use Ada? Michael Feldman
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