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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Luke A. Guest Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: a new language, designed for safety ! Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 19:52:23 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <1872904482424209024.314619laguest-archeia.com@nntp.aioe.org> References: <1402308235.2520.153.camel@pascal.home.net> <85ioo9yukk.fsf@stephe-leake.org> <9qednXOIGNDuLQXORVn_vwA@giganews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: KFiqAwc+orlMcuBjjI7dJQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: NewsTap/4.0.1 (iPhone/iPod Touch) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:20243 Date: 2014-06-11T19:52:23+00:00 List-Id: Peter Chapin wrote: > On 2014-06-11 04:27, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > I see Ada living in the same universe as C and C++. It's good at low > level, close-to-the machine, systems programming. I tell my students, > "any application where it makes sense to consider C, it also makes sense > to consider Ada." > > However, mobile applications live in a different universe, it seems to > me. In that universe a different feature set is probably best. Ada isn't > the ideal language for all programming! So I think it's a good thing Really? There's a ton of apps for ios written in c++, you really think Ada doesn't belong? If there was an Ada compiler for ios, would you use it? Luke