From: "Nick Roberts" <Nick.Roberts@dial.pipex.com>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/18
Date: 1997-06-18T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01bc7b7e$bc0a0400$LocalHost@xhv46.dial.pipex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33a1c14d.155787285@news.mhv.net
Paul Van Bellinghen <pvanbell@mhv.net> wrote in article
<33a1c14d.155787285@news.mhv.net> reasons for C being more successful than
Ada for embedded applications.
You concentrate on an example of a technical advantage of C over Ada, and
you present this example well. I feel many Ada advocates would argue that
the Ada way you outlined was better (for being more explicit) than the C
code. However, I feel sure that the C code would be just as acceptable
provided it was documented sufficiently (perhaps with a good comment), and
I'm sure many programmers would be irked by the more cumbersome methods
imposed by Ada.
However, I do feel that the predominant reasons for C achieving greater
success than Ada, both in the embedded arena and everywhere else, are
commercial, not technical. C is a more pragmatic language than Ada: it is
easier (cheaper) to implement a C compiler than an Ada compiler. It has
also had a long head start (at least ten years, I would reckon) in the
market place.
I think it is a little premature to 'write off' Ada just yet!
Nick.
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1997-06-13 0:00 Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` nma123
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1997-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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1997-06-18 0:00 Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Yasmiin S. Davis
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Dr. Vladimir Il'ich Fomin
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Donovan Baarda
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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