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From: jcn@swl.msd.ray.com (John Norcross {83602})
Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux - the new TOPS-10? Was: Bill's PDP-10
Date: 24 Nov 1996 18:35:44 -0500
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peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

>In article <575atp$kfv@transfer.stratus.com>,
>Tom Moser <moser@sw.stratus.com> wrote:
>>PASCAL. Always has been better than C. BLISS would have also been a possible
>>choice but I would have chosen PASCAL.

>Standard Pascal is missing too much to be useful as a systems programming
>language. An enhanced Pascal? Well, it's all the non-compatible enhanced
>Pascals that have made Pascal a non-starter. Modula, alas, has much of the
>same problem (I kinda like Modula, but the two compilers I got for my Amiga
>were wildly incompatible).

>BLISS? BLISS is ignorance?

>PL/M?

>Maybe if you came up with a REALLY good Lisp/Scheme dialect...
>-- 
></peter>

Safe, Compatible, Internationally Standardized (ISO), full tasking
(Real Time) support built in, fully OO, portable, proven track record,

---> Ada 95

What is Ada 95 ?
----------------
 
Ada 95 is the latest  Ada standard. It is also  the first ISO and ANSI
standard   programming  language   to   fully  support object-oriented
programming. Ada 95  is fully upward compatible with  Ada 83  (ISO 87)
and has the  same robust  foundation in  Software Engineering. At  the
same time, it provides up-to-date features for today's megaprogramming
tasks, including:
 
   - object-oriented programming, inheritance, polymorphism and dynamic
     dispatching, within the strong-typing discipline of Ada 83.
 
   - Hierarchical program libraries, for composition of subsystems and
     support of multiple implementations.

   - Well-defined support for interfacing to other languages such as C,
     Fortran and COBOL.
 
   - Support for specialized application areas such as:
     System Programming, Real-Time Systems, Distributed Systems,
     Information Systems, and Scientific Programming.
 

Check out: http://www.adahome.com

It amazes me to see folks wishing they had a language like Ada only to
never realize that it already exits! 

A *free*, GNU based compiler (GNAT) is available for just about every 
platform/OS out there:  

Intel(DOS, Win95/NT, OS/2, Linux, Solaris, Nextstep, NETBSD)
M68K (Nextstep, Mac)
Mips (Dec Ultrix, SGI Irix)
RS6000 (IBM AIX)
Alpha (Dec OSF, Linux)
Sparc (Sun OS, Solaris)

Don't take my word for it, check it out!

--John Norcross