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Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/19
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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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