From: Ken Mays <kenneth.l.mays@cpmx.saic.com>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/07/13
Date: 1997-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33C90D92.22A3@cpmx.saic.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33bd5635.5873324@news.mhv.net
Its not so much as what language is better than any other language, its
what is the appropriate tool for the task. Ada95 works well with
embedded software projects. C/C++ works well with Unix programming and
other types of work. Java works well for cross platform/Internet work.
Can one language do it all? Its possible, but would take a major
undertaking. Its like telling everyone to speak and write English. Its
possible, but everyone will not conform.
C++ is the commercial langauge of choice. Ada95 is DOD/avionics. Then
there is Java and COBOL/RPG. The other languages like Smalltalk and
ABAP/4 are for the adventerous.
Ken Mays
SAIC
>Paul Van Bellinghen wrote:
>
> >Ada *is* inadequate; but so is C. I'd certainly prefer to use Ada than C
> >or
> >(shudder) COBOL, both of which I've been forced to use. Most of the
> >inadequacies in Ada apply in spades to C.
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-18 0:00 Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Yasmiin S. Davis
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Ken Mays [this message]
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Donovan Baarda
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Dr. Vladimir Il'ich Fomin
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-06-13 0:00 Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` nma123
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1997-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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