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From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/19
Date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <199706191359.PAA26662@basement.replay.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5oa3ro$52u$1@news.pacifier.com


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On 19 Jun 1997 02:00:24 GMT, steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel) wrote:

> In article <33a1c14d.155787285@news.mhv.net>, pvanbell@mhv.net says...
> >
> >I've been a real-time embeded Software Engineer since 1975. I've used
> >assembly,Pascal & Fortran (not in real-time), C, and now Ada. I think
> >that there are basicly two reasons why Ada did not replace C as the
> >real-time embeded language of choice - in the commercial world and
> >recently in the military. 
> >
> >
> >1. Ada is not and never was a programmer's language...[snip]
> >
> >2. Ada is realy a high level language...[snip]
> 
> I disagree with both statements (other replies give specific examples).

I disagree with your disagreement with 2. Ada is really a high-level
language, and C really is a low-level language. Capers Jones has
classified languages as low, middle, and high level based on the average
number of statements need to code a function point. C, at >100, is a
low-level language. Ada, at < 50, is a high-level language.

Maybe you're disagreeing that this is a reason for Ada not being popular
..

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  reply	other threads:[~1997-06-19  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-06-13  0:00 Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-17  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00   ` nma123
1997-06-24  0:00     ` Adam Beneschan
1997-06-17  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-17  0:00   ` Robert Munck
1997-06-18  0:00   ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-19  0:00     ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-06-19  0:00       ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-18  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-18  0:00   ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25  0:00     ` Van Snyder
1997-06-26  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-30  0:00         ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02  0:00           ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02  0:00             ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02  0:00             ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-06-19  0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-06-19  0:00   ` Anonymous [this message]
1997-07-22  0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-06-18  0:00 Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-18  0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-19  0:00   ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-06-19  0:00     ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-19  0:00     ` Anonymous
1997-07-17  0:00     ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-19  0:00   ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21  0:00     ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-20  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23  0:00         ` John G. Volan
1997-07-03  0:00           ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-03  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-06  0:00               ` Yasmiin S. Davis
1997-07-06  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-07  0:00               ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-04  0:00             ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-07-13  0:00               ` Ken Mays
1997-07-13  0:00                 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-14  0:00                   ` Ken Mays
1997-06-20  0:00   ` Don Harrison
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-20  0:00       ` Nick Leaton
1997-06-23  0:00       ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24  0:00         ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-06-24  0:00           ` Nick Leaton
1997-07-22  0:00           ` Dr. Vladimir Il'ich Fomin
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Donovan Baarda
1997-06-20  0:00     ` Roy Grimm
1997-06-23  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24  0:00       ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23  0:00     ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-06-20  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21  0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-06-21  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24  0:00     ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-24  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-28  0:00   ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-28  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
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