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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.107.19.154 with SMTP id 26mr34284741iot.10.1438080048294; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 03:40:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.96.47 with SMTP id j44mr528472qge.19.1438080048266; Tue, 28 Jul 2015 03:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!f3no3915309igg.0!news-out.google.com!b31ni978qge.0!nntp.google.com!69no2399711qgl.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 03:40:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=178.212.31.133; posting-account=nuF4hQoAAADjc2KKS1rOkzxWWEmaDrvx NNTP-Posting-Host: 178.212.31.133 References: <877fq9uj6g.fsf@theworld.com> <65061686-5c8f-433b-9b11-9e228298158e@googlegroups.com> <87k2u96jms.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <06f8a6f9-d219-4d40-b9ac-8518e93839bd@googlegroups.com> <87y4io63jy.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <7a29d3e9-d1bd-4f4a-b1a6-14d3e1a83a4d@googlegroups.com> <87mvz36fen.fsf@jester.gateway.sonic.net> <2215b44f-8a89-47c6-a4c4-52b74d2dac45@googlegroups.com> <9e492c82-868d-43d3-a18a-38274400e337@googlegroups.com> <40184feb-4053-4ac3-8eaa-c3bd9cd8a77c@googlegroups.com> <10272577-945f-4682-85bc-8ad47f3653ae@googlegroups.com> <87si8i81k2.fsf@atmarama.net> <8076cbd0-2655-4c98-b70e-cb5f0c32e4ba@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <232aee5e-5c50-4880-afb9-faea9eb094b7@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: If not Ada, what else... From: darkestkhan Injection-Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 10:40:48 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:27075 Date: 2015-07-28T03:40:48-07:00 List-Id: On Monday, July 27, 2015 at 10:59:23 PM UTC, Randy Brukardt wrote: > I'm not sure why you consider this "out of competition". I think this is the > main reason: Ada is for people who want to write correct, working programs. > It's not for hacking (although some of use can be pretty effective hacking > in Ada), it's certainly not for prototyping, and so on. So it never was > "sexy", and it's not really intended to be fun (unless you have a very weird > sense of fun like mine!!). Interesting considering that I don't see any problem when it comes to prototyping in Ada... in fact I would say that Ada is very good at it. [I even ended up writing prototypes of things that later on had to be implemented in C/C++]