From: mcsun!ieunet!ccvax.ucd.ie!vms.eurokom.ie!adimaio@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Why ADA?
Date: 26 Mar 92 09:13:51 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <11686.29d195cf@vms.eurokom.ie> (raw)
In article <2697@fedfil.UUCP>, news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
> In article <1992Mar21.235624.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, das11@jaguar.uofs.edu writes
:
>
>> at my university, they stress ada development. why should i
>> program in ada when there is c? what does ada offer me? please,
>> do not give me the crap that c is a glorified assembler.
>
>> if i program with good oo style, what does ada buy me that i
>> can not do in c?
>
> Job security (since the same product in Ada will take many times as long
> as in C), the undying gratitude of senator Robert Byrd, numerous generals
> and other misinformed people in DOD, the gratitude of numerous psychiatrists,
> whose services you will require, the gratitude of this nations enemies, since
> Ada makes critical American software less reliable and many times longer
> in development than it should be... Need more?
>
> Ted Holden
> HTE
>
>
> --
> HTE
> bear
Let's wait for C++ results on large projects. They are likely to come back
asking for Ada ...
Andrea Di Maio
TXT Ingegneria Informatica - Milan (Italy) (we develop in C, Ada, C++, ASM ...)
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