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=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,3e070dca458e63a6 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.190.193 with SMTP id dj1mr7684584qab.6.1358630225588; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:17:05 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.49.39.99 with SMTP id o3mr2836232qek.14.1358630225531; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:17:05 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni675qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no1499134qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 13:17:05 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.53.78.59; posting-account=ShYTIAoAAABytvcS76ZrG9GdaV-nXYKy NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.53.78.59 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <2e2c2eb7-cc2a-4a23-9cad-2044c704c460@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: More Ganssle on Ada From: sbelmont700@gmail.com Injection-Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 21:17:05 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2013-01-19T13:17:05-08:00 List-Id: >"The fundamental computation model of Ada is imperative, and most concepts= of imperative programming are available with semantics that are very close= to those of these other languages." I think that right there is the problem: Everyone feels it necessary to com= pare Ada to C, when really they are so totally different. I've had the dis= pleasure of maintaining a lot of legacy code, ostensibly written in Ada, wh= ere Integer and Float are used for everything, access values are used inste= ad of out parameters, tasks are avoided in favor of the underlying O/S mode= l, System.Address is used instead of generics, and the list goes on. And t= hen they complain about Ada because they still have to spend just as much t= ime debugging! A C program written in the Ada syntax is still just a crapp= y C program. -sb