Re: Data shows Top 50 Software Vendors not using Ada

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!cs.ucf.edu!longwood!crigler@ ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (James Crigler)]

Doug Lamb wrote in response to Greg Aharonian:
:   Having read your many posts to this newsgroup, Mr. Aharonian--and not to
: start any more flame wars, which lend little to the technical discussion of
: this group--I suspect you have ignored the wide usage of Ada in the non-U.S.
: computing community.  You may be in the majority in the U.S. as a proponent
: of C/C++ [...]

Doug, if you think Greg is a C/C++ proponent
  1.  You haven't been reading what he writes
  2.  So is Prof. Mike (Feldman).
Greg has complained a lot about what the DOD has/hasn't done to help Ada,
and to a large extent he's been right.

:   The Ada mandate and documentation standards were intended to make code
: for DoD projects relatively uniform
[...]
:  Language-
: enforced readability is a lot more effective than programmer-specific
: readability.

Ada can't enforce readability.  Only people can.  Some of the hardest to
read code in the world was written with the intention of following some
(usually reasonable) set of coding standards (a subject recently discussed
in this group).  Control of the language namespace is the key, not the
choice of language per se.

Jim Crigler
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