Re: Ada The Best Language?

["McDoobie" <chris@dont.spam.me>]

In article <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com>,
codesavvy@aol.com (codesavvy) wrote:

> How come it is not more widely accepted?  The stuff I read here states
> that it is because the rest of the world is stupid.  From what I can
> tell there is plenty of crappy code written in Ada.  I think many who
> share the view that Ada is the best programming language offering
> significant advantages over other programming language might want to
> re-think their positions.

Fucking language flamewars chaffe my ass.

I use Assembler, C, Java, and Ada95. I play around with Common Lisp, Fortran, 
, Objective C, Perl, and Python.

The goal is to use the right tool for the job. Half the time I dont even have 
to write original code, I just string together the tools written by others. If 
all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
You got your zealots of all stripes, from procedural junkies to OOP 
"aficiandos". They sound like a bunch of Jehovas Witnesses.

I use Ada95 because for a lot of jobs it's the right tool for me. I write 
applications using Ada95, I do device drives with Assembler(although they
currently rank between sucks and jack-shit), I use C for inline code and 
tiny CLI apps, Java (with the IBM JVM) works good for network apps, and 
the others are great academic excercises(for me personally, they do have
powerful industrial grade features.)

Trying to decide on the "best" language is like trying to decide on the 
"best" automobile. You dont drive a station wagon to the drag strip, and 
you dont use a Stock Car for hauling freight(an eighteen wheeler usually 
works best for that, or a frieght train). The "best" language is relative to 
whos using it and what they're using it for.
There are some projects that I wouldn't touch with Ada95. There are others 
that I wouldn't use anything else but Ada95. And there are yet others where
I freely mix and match object files between languages.

No..."What is the 'best' language?" is clearly the wrong question to be 
asking. The correct question would be "Who is the best thinker?". 
And that, people, is essentially what it all comes down to.


McDoobie
chris@dont.spam.me