From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,7d7ee3c3e9e9e103 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,9f9e8bd17e4d4c4d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,7d7ee3c3e9e9e103 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-14 15:50:50 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!riehler From: riehler@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Richard Riehle) Subject: Re: Eiffel for DoD development? Message-ID: <1994Oct14.160250.25027@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: adaworks@netcom.com (Richard Riehle) Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering (adaworks@netcom.com) References: <377864$tv@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <781960828joe.joe@jsnode.equinox.gen.nz> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 16:02:50 EDT Xref: bga.com comp.lang.eiffel:2274 comp.object:7373 comp.lang.ada:6925 Date: 1994-10-14T16:02:50-04:00 List-Id: In article <781960828joe.joe@jsnode.equinox.gen.nz> joe@jsnode.equinox.gen.nz (Joseph Skinner) writes: >In article <377864$tv@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) writes: >>In article , >>Jeffrey W. Stulin wrote: >>>> In article Jeffrey W. Stulin, >>>> jws@seeker.tiac.net writes: >>>> >What DOD should be doing is a compromise: keep a short list of accepted >>>> >languages and let each development project choose the best language (from >>>> >the list) for the job. >> >>Now, you list a language underneath it that provides a NON >>overlapping set of functionality. (Hint: Don't put Eiffel down) >>(Another hint: There are answers, just damn few) > No one has yet provided an irrefutable argument that a properly implemented Ada compiler, along with appropriate plaform-supporting packages, cannot be used to solve the vast majority of real-life software problems that most of us confront on a day-by-day basis. If we can do the job in Ada, why would we want to create more confusion by mixing in more languages. For example, I sometimes enjoy the macaronic verse of Ezra Pound but it is extraordinarily difficult to read with its mixture ofGreek, Latin, English, Italian, and Chinese characters. I certainly would not advocate this kind of writing for documentation anymore than I would encourage multiple computer languages for software development. Prove to me that Ada cannot do the job, and I will use an alternative. Richard Riehle