Re: ada and robots

["Matthew S. Whiting" <whiting@epix.net>]

I greatly appreciate Jon's rebuttal.  He was quite specific and included
only minimal name calling.  Likewise Robert Duff's comments were fairly
much to the point.  I'm not sure how to reconcile the disagreement
between Jon and Robert with respect to whether 1.5 of the points made
were legitimate or not, but this provides a good reason for me to study
Ada a little more to make my own judgement.  Robert Dewar's complaint of
lack of source code equating to lack of specificity is noted, but Jon
seemed to have enough detail to provide useful commentary.  And the note
did include SOME source code!  Samuel's sarcasm provides me nothing
useful in my ongoing effort to convince my colleague to give Ada a
deeper evaluation.  Lastly, Stephen's comments are helpful as well.  I
appreciate the time you all took to respond, especially those with
useful responses!  I'm not sure which is worse, the ignorance of many C
and C++ programmers or the arrogance of many Ada programmers...

Matt (a lowly engineering manager trying to get my engineers to use the
best available tools and techniques)