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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,9e2776c05028676e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "John G. Volan" Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Date: 1997/06/23 Message-ID: <33AE33AA.684A@sprintmail.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 251980180 References: <33A7FBFF.29D2@mitre.org> <5o9eca$aoi$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33ab1c1c.2926201@news.mhv.net> Organization: Sprint Internet Passport Reply-To: johnvolan@sprintmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-06-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Internet.Usenet.Put_Signature (Name => "John G. Volan", Employer => "Texas Instruments Advanced C3I Systems, San Jose, CA", Work_Email => "jvolan@ti.com", Home_Email => "johnvolan@sprintmail.com", Slogan => "Ada95: World's *FIRST* International-Standard OOPL", Disclaimer => "My employer never defined these opinions, so using" & "them would be totally erroneous ... or is that" & "just nondeterministic behavior now? :-) "); ------------------------------------------------------------------------