From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/07/17
Date: 1997-07-17T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33CEB2E8.4FEC@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 2s9107ar96.fsf@hpodid2.eurocontrol.fr
Steve Jones - JON wrote:
>
> I think Ada's problem here is that no one who has used C actually
> belives that a language that incorporates data hiding and strong SE
> principles can also access the bare metal effectively. Maybe Ada was
> just a little too good.
Nonesense! Just because someone has had the misfortune to use C doesn't
mean that his brain is rotten, or even that he likes the abysmal thing.
Some people use C because they are forced to, and are painfully aware of
its defects. For that matter, some people ase Ada because they are
forced to ;-)
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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
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 ` Anonymous
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
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 ` 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
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` nma123
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
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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