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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,d5b211b0c1ffcf3e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.204.132.81 with SMTP id a17mr439220bkt.4.1339698191481; Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:23:11 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Path: e27ni48213bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news2.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.alt.net!news.dizum.com!sewer-output!mail2news From: Nomen Nescio Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Practicalities of Ada for app development References: Message-ID: <1636da0f308fb314caa1f987443dfa51@dizum.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:10:07 +0200 (CEST) Mail-To-News-Contact: abuse@dizum.com Organization: mail2news@dizum.com X-Received-Bytes: 1348 Date: 2012-06-11T23:10:07+02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > On 06/10/2012 05:00 PM, Nasser M. Abbasi wrote: > > > > But perl is here now and it is what is used for string > > processing more than anything I would think. > > C is here now and it is what is used for networking S/W more than anything. > > COBOL is here now and it is what is used for financial S/W more than anything. > > Popularity is hardly a reason to choose a language. > I worked on an Ada project where Ada SWEs with ~5-15 years experience were tasked with a text manipulation problem. Took these senior engineers *days* to complete the project. One of them deviated from the crowd and used PERL. Took him less than 2 hours to complete the coursework. After that, the company banned PERL for that particular project (fyi, it was a six sigma project). There is a good reason Ada is "unpopular" for text parsing and manipulation.