From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!mars.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu!larry@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Larry Maturo)
Subject: Re: Who uses Ada??
Date: 4 Nov 92 21:48:08 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1992Nov4.214808.20884@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> (raw)
In article <1992Nov4.185521.2322@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (f
red j mccall 575-3539) writes:
>In <1992Nov3.213837.6505@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> larry@tsd.arlut.utexas.ed
u (Larry Maturo) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Nov3.191829.22803@csusac.csus.edu> cs13517@athena.ecs.csus.ed
u writes:
>>>
>>> I am a DOD civillian engineer who is obviously affected by the
>>>Ada mandate. I was having a conversation with a co-worker and we came
>>>up with a question. Who (companies, and individuals, and schools) use
>>>Ada AND, are not associated with the US federal government or government
>>>contracting. In other words, who uses Ada because they want to, not
>>>because they were told to?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Kevin Metcalfe
>>>metcalfeke@allin1.dnet@c3po.sm-alc.af.mil
>>>
>>>p.s. Remember, use C, go to jail.
>
>
>>You left out the important and growing group of those who must use Ada and af
ter
>>having had to use would not switch even if they could. Try it, you'll like i
t.
>
>I have. I would personally rather use C++, but this is all a matter
>of personal choice. I'm afraid I find some of the more religious
>language bigots more than slightly silly at times (not intended to
>point to anyone in particular -- I just don't think that this silly
>'language bigotry' can be bashed too often; it's what keeps people
>from using the appropriate tools for the job and automatically makes a
>lot of people bristle against a language).
>
>--
>"Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
> in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me
.
>
>
I couldn't agree more. I prefer the languages Ada, Modula-2, Modula-3, Oberon,
and ICON. I've used C, C++, and assembly and find them appropriate at times.
Only
liking or being able to utilize one language is very limiting.
>
>
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