Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice

["John G. Volan" <johnvolan@sprintmail.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> I often notice that when you get people to give actual examples in C of
> code that they would like to present as demonstrating the inadequacies
> of Ada, they actually turn out to be great examples of the superiority
> of Ada over C, in the realm which people think of as belonging to C,
> namely low level operations.
> 
> That's why it is a shame that Joe will not or cannot follow through on
> giving specific examples. They very likely would be cases of this kind!

Time to take the gloves off: It is not that Joe can not, it is that he
will not.  We've given him ample opportunity, but, as I suspected from
the start, he's more interested in damning Ada with vague generalities
and faint praise than in really engaging in a nuts-and-bolts discussion.

Joe's sort clings to a jaundiced opinion of Ada's capabilities, and is
rarely swayed even by direct evidence to the contrary, because this
jaundiced opinion is ever so comforting to them. I mean, if you've
invested your world-view in the notion that Ada is inadequate, then of
course you're not going to see any cost-benefit in presenting a concrete
example demonstrating your world-view -- because, heaven forbid, someone
might actually be able address your concrete example and show how your
world-view is wrong!

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