From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e87c7ceb455db17c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-23 07:29:15 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!ash.uu.net!spool.news.uu.net!not-for-mail Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 10:28:57 -0400 From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Solid facts to promote Ada References: <3f973ff2_2@news.tm.net.my> In-Reply-To: <3f973ff2_2@news.tm.net.my> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: KBC Financial Products Message-ID: <1066919337.976593@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> Cache-Post-Path: master.nyc.kbcfp.com!unknown@aphelion.nyc.kbcfp.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) NNTP-Posting-Host: 204.253.250.10 X-Trace: 1066919338 24005 204.253.250.10 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1514 Date: 2003-10-23T10:28:57-04:00 List-Id: Adrian Hoe wrote: > It has real numbers to proof that Ada is a better language over > others, instead of statements claiming Ada is better. It has no such thing. The only things that one can gather from this paper is that it is possible to write a good system in Ada (duh!), and that a freshly written re-engineered version of an existing system is more maintainable than the old system. That last one also merits a duh!, given that the existing system grew as a hodgepodge of various implementation technologies. This paper offers no reason to believe that the same re-engineering would have been less successful using implementation languages other than Ada.