Re: Reasons for dropping Ada

[mike@cs.arizona.edu (Mike Coffin)]

[Speaking of Tom Holden]
From article <27187@cup.portal.com> (Loren Louis Hart):
> Frankly, I don't think his opinions are worth posting any responses to.
> The only reason I am posting this response is to try to help keep the useless
> trafic down.

Actually, I thought his last article had an interesting arguement---
not against the quality of Ada, but against the idea that Ada will
ever become popular.  The fact that Unix seems to be taking over the
world certainly seems to give C and C++ a *big* leg up.  Not only are
all the Unix tools built for, and based on, C, but the operating
system itself is optimized for running C programs.  Given that many
contracts in the future will specify Unix, there will be a
considerable tendency to also specify C or C++.

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