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From: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ADA on Amiga
Message-ID: <1392@cs.nps.navy.mil>
Date: 12 Sep 90 05:15:30 GMT
References: <1990Sep9.173108.16455@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> <6848.26ed24a4@vax1.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Organization: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA
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In article <6848.26ed24a4@vax1.tcd.ie> cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie writes:
>In article <1990Sep9.173108.16455@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>, xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:

[some discussion deleted]

>> Ada for the Amiga sounds like a dream come true, but it OXXI is
>> involved, nightmare is more likely to be the result.
>
> Ada for the Amiga sounds like a nightmare come true. It's a big ugly language.
>The compiler we used here eats up disk-space and is s.l.o.w.  With a language
>like that it's not surprising. I can't see how it will be much better on an
>Amiga.
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Christian Murphy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland	cpmurphy@vax1.tcd.ie

Actually, IMHO, Ada is a big, very nicely blocked structured language, whose
performance can be a function of what compiler is being used.  Let's avoid the
language religious wars if we can.  Whether or not one or more individuals
do not have a use for a particular language does not detract from the 
possibility that other individuals _do_ have a need for that language.  I
believe that there is a market for Ada on the Amiga.  One recent estimate 
placed the the US Ada hardware and software market in the $1 billion (yes,
billion with a 'b') range in sales for 1989 (reference Government Computer
News, August 20, 1990).  Apparently, Ada was also becoming a major factor in
banking and finance systems in Europe, also.  It might be nice if the Amiga
could get involved in even a small portion of this market.

Jeff Schweiger


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