Re: Perhaps there _is_ a conspiracy against Ada

[Tom Moran <tmoran@bix.com>]

clines@delete_this.airmail.net (Kevin Cline) said:
> 2. No support for functions as objects.  This made it impossible to write
> event-driven programs without resorting to yet another vendor-specific hack.
  Having done event driven programs in Ada on both PC and Mac I can
testify that it was not only possible, but rather easy.  Ada also had
the advantage that multitasking paradigms in addition to "event-driven"
could be easily used without having to roll your own tasking supervisor.
 
> 3. Extremely poor quality compilers.  I know; I tried a bunch of them: Verdix,
> Telesoft (before the were bought by Alsys), and Alsys.
  I can't speak to any of those, but the RR compiler I used was quite
good.  Perhaps you were simply unlucky in your choice of compilers.
  
> 4. Ridiculously pitiful debuggers.
  Having the program print something like "Constraint Error, value = -1"
and a traceback sure beats setting breakpoints in a program whose bug
symptom is a system crash.
 
> 5. A complete lack of other supporting software, like performance profilers.
  Perhaps on the compilers you used. There was a nice profiler with the
RR PC compiler.
Admittedly, it came with the "Pro" version, not the $99 version.  I
can't seem to recall any profiler coming with the "Borland C++ 3.1" or
the Computer Innovations C compilers that I used in the same time frame.