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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6854782231daeb76 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: Newbie with questions Date: 1999/09/02 Message-ID: <1999Sep2.191914.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 520386500 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: eisner.decus.org References: <37CE8E37.160375E7@mnsinc.com> <37CEF309.29B2F079@mnsinc.com> X-Trace: news.decus.org 936314357 22428 KILGALLEN [216.44.122.34] Organization: LJK Software Reply-To: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-09-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <37CEF309.29B2F079@mnsinc.com>, John Behen writes: > Once again, thanks for the help. But a quick question. How hard is Ada > to integrate into web design? Or is that a road I don't want to > travel..... Certainly Ada will fit into web site _implementation_ as well as any compiled language. Typically people see the strength of Ada as being not so much whether it will fit into a particular setting (generally yes) but rather once it is there how well it avoids bugs. Of course bugs come not from the language but from the programmer and how the programmer uses the language. Ada has many features to facilitate avoiding errors in your programs, and that is what many of us cherish. You can get that benefit, by the way, without using every single feature in the language. Tasking is a major feature of Ada, but I went for years without ever using tasking (I use it now). I don't think I have ever used floating point math, because I don't work on that sort of problem. But you asked about web "design", and I am not sure Ada is particularly relevant to the "design" part, unless you were writing a program to help designers and chose to write it in Ada. Of course there are many programs already out there to do that, and a lot of Ada people have quality as their main objective, so they readily admit that a high-quality program already written in some other language is better than writing from scratch just to have it in Ada. There are some programs out there however, even in Ada, that are not high quality. Larry Kilgallen