Re: 30 Years

[cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!progers@ucbvax.Berke ley.EDU (Pat Rogers)]

In article <9309081721.AA18798@manta.nosc.mil> mshapiro@manta.nosc.mil (Michael
 D Shapiro) writes:
>
  [reasonable stuff to this point]

>I believe Ada's acceptance problem is that it requires a high level of
>formality all the time.  It assumes every program must be written in
>maintainable style.  People become uncomfortable when they must work at
>that level of formality all the time.  So they reject Ada, even though
>they probably should use it some of the time.
>

  I followed your discussion until this point.  What is it that
_requires_ this style?  One can write a program in Ada in as "informal"
a manner as desired.  One need not use encapsulation, abstraction, 
even strong typing in Ada.  (Once you're good at it, it doesn't take much
more time, though.)  I beleve people reject Ada out of ignorance and
half-truths, not for technical reasons.

pat rogers