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Date: 26 Mar 92 09:13:51 GMT
From: mcsun!ieunet!ccvax.ucd.ie!vms.eurokom.ie!adimaio@uunet.uu.net
Subject: Re: Why ADA?
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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 ...)