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From: "Tim Behrendsen" <tim@airshields.com>
Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because...
Date: 1996/07/30
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Bob Kitzberger <rlk@rational.com> wrote in article
<4tiorn$r5b@rational.rational.com>...
> Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields.com) wrote:
> 
> : > You have a good point. Unfortunately, your premise is wrong. Ada is
in 
> : > extensive use outside of the Government. In fact it is the language
of 
> : > choice wherever a software failure is liable to cause loss of life or
a 
> : > very large lawsuit. 
> 
> : Based on your post, Ada is only appropriate for mission critical
> : applications, and not for other applications?
> 
> That does not follow from the poster's comments, does it?

Sorry; this has been misinterpreted by two people, so let me
rephrase the sentence.

You say that it is the language of choice when software failure is
liable to cause loss of life or a very large lawsuit.  These
are very worthy attributes.  Given that this is the case, why
isn't it being used more universally for non-mission critical
software?

[and again, let me stress that this is not a "wise guy" question;
I am sincerely interested, since from everything I have heard,
albeit not seen for myself, Ada is a very good language]

-- Tim Behrendsen (tim@airshields)