From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 4 Nov 92 21:48:08 GMT From: sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!mars.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu!larry@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Larry Maturo) Subject: Re: Who uses Ada?? Message-ID: <1992Nov4.214808.20884@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> List-Id: 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. > > +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+ | | | | Larry Maturo | Opinions expressed herein must be | | Tactical Simulation Division | yours, neither I nor my employer have | | Applied Research Laboratories | any. | | University of Texas at Austin | | | P.O. Box 8029 +----------------------------------------+ | Austin, Texas 78713-8029 | | | | When you're as great as I am it's hard | | larry@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu | to be modest, but I succeed where | | | others fail. | +-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------+