[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/19/18 7:40 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> Ada95 is a much bigger language than Ada83.
> 
> And Ada83 was enormous.
> We had a Data General at gatech which could handle about 50 simultaneous
> Pascal compiles, or one Ada compile.
> 
>> And as with other language that got redesigned then
>> I believe that such a redesign is not as clean as it
>> would have been if it had been done so from the beginning.
> 
> It was the PL/1 of the 1980s.  So big that everyone programmed in a
> subset and so nobody could read anyone else's code...

First, there are no Ada Subsets.  The owners of the language
specifically prohibit it.

Second, it is a typical item designed by committee.  BY the
time it was done  the people responsible for its creation in
the first place (The US Air Force) refused to use it even
with the DOD mandate.

bill