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: 26 Jul 93 15:51:51 GMT From: cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!wellerd@ucbvax.Berke ley.EDU (David Weller) Subject: Re: Anyone else actually like Ada? Message-ID: <1993Jul26.115151.25344@sei.cmu.edu> List-Id: In article <230ni6$eo0@truffula.fp.trw.com> erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com (Harry Erwi n) writes: >>[Various application areas of Ada listed] > >But those are the sorts of applications Ada was specifically designed for. >People -->should<-- be using Ada there. But they should not be using Ada >for applications where a fully object-oriented design approach is >appropriate (test software, simulations, operating systems, more >generally, message passing systems). > >Cheers, Boy, am I ashamed! Here I am, building a large scale, object-oriented simulation system, using message passing and doing OS work (RMS scheduling, resource allocation, message routing), and all in that *@#$ Ada language. Am I doing something wrong? :-) -- type My_Disclaimer is new Standard.Disclaimer with record AJPO, SEI : Cognizance := Disavow_All_Knowledge; end record;--)