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: Ken Mays Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Date: 1997/07/13 Message-ID: <33C90D92.22A3@cpmx.saic.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 256641574 References: <33A7FBFF.29D2@mitre.org> <5o9eca$aoi$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> <33ab1c1c.2926201@news.mhv.net> <33AE33AA.684A@sprintmail.com> <33BC2364.4485@gsg.eds.com> <33bd5635.5873324@news.mhv.net> Organization: SAIC (http://www.saic.com) Reply-To: kenneth.l.mays@cpmx.saic.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.