Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!Stachour@HI-MULTICS.ARPA From: Stachour@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (Paul D. Stachour) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: A Validated Ada Compiler for the IBM PC/XT! Message-ID: <9051@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 18:24:03 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.9051 Posted: Thu Mar 7 18:24:03 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Mar-85 07:19:30 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 20 Rick (and others): --> In reguard to offloading to a PC or elsewhere <-- Remember that offloading compilations to another machine will not be that easy in Ada. It's the separate compilation and library access that will have to be 'kept-in-sync' also. Ada is "more than a language" ("Ada, more than a language" is one of the talks that I give). The library managers available on most systems are inadequate to support good development, only suitable for single-person or very-small-team efforts. To do this "right" your off-loaded-compiler will need access to the "real-library", and most compilers will not, and cannot, due to their implementation, support same. The DDC (Dansk Datamatic Center) family of compilers is one family that will be able, because of their design, to support same; I certainly hope that there will be others. The DDC family does not yet support this function, nor has DDC promised that they well, but the potential is there. I have a biased interest in the DDC family because the company I work for, Honeywell, is doing its Ada compilers jointly with DDC. ...Paul