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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10d15b,d730ea9d54f7e063 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d15b,public From: "James A. Squire" Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/08/12 Message-ID: <320F496A.61D4@csehp3.mdc.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 173712125 references: <31e02c32.342948604@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4s4adc$l4a@ecuador.it.earthlink.net> <31EA0B65.3EF8@wgs.estec.esa.nl> <31EF7E48.5ABE@lmtas.lmco.com> <4ss8ru$3d4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <31F28DBD.2A1D@harris.com> <31f3c52e.238719470 <4tnoeh$qjr@maverick.tad.eds.com> <4uj42h$j06@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> <4um1l9$klq@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: MDA Avionics Tools & Processes mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.cobol x-mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.01 9000/715) Date: 1996-08-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Craig Franck wrote: > > jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) wrote: > >In article <4uj42h$j06@mtinsc01-mgt.ops.worldnet.att.net> Craig Franck < > >> Realize it's much easier get a C compiler up and running for an embedded > >> system that it is an Ada compiler. To even call it an Ada compiler it > >> must pass a validation suite. If you are bidding on a government contract, yes. Otherwise, no. > conform it *can not* be called an Ada compiler. It states you > can work towards conformity and use the name, but thats an exeption. And that is a problem for the vendor, not for you. Most likely they already are working towards validation, but you don't need to worry about that. > If I were to bid on a contract, tell the DOD I'm developing in Ada > and submit C++, I think they would call that "fraud". Are you? If not, then this is irrelevent to this discussion. The question is, which language is better. > I think part of the resistance to Ada is C belongs to the world. > Ada belongs to the government! :-) Yesterday's news. Today this is no longer true, conceptually. Implementation may take awhile yet, but the Ada language is going commercial. Count on it. -- James Squire mailto:ja_squire@csehp3.mdc.com MDA Avionics Tools & Processes McDonnell Douglas Aerospace http://www.mdc.com/ Opinions expressed here are my own and NOT my company's "I will teach you." 'About yourself?' "About you. Until you are ready." 'For what?' "To fight legends." -- Kosh and Sheridan, "Hunter, Prey"