Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?

[William Clodius <wclodius@lanl.gov>]

Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> <snip>  There is far more creative energy going into developing
> the logic programming paradigm than there is going into extending Ada, for
> example.
> <snip>

This strikes me as a misleading analogy. You are comparing a paradigm
(logic programming) with a subset (?) (Ada) of the paradigm "imperative"
programming (imperative is probably the wrong term here). More relevant
comparisons would be paradigm vs. paradigm, i.e., logic programming
(including Prolog, Goedel, Mercury, etc.) vs. "imperative" programming
(Pascal, Ada, Fortran, C, C++, etc.), or dialects of Prolog vs. dialects
of Ada. I would be surprised if the paradigm vs. paradigm comparison
does not reveal more effort going into the imperative programming
paradigm. I suspect that Prolog wins over Ada on the subset vs. subset
comparison, because most examples of the logic programming paradigm
would be considered to be dialects of Prolog, and most examples of the
imperative programming paradigm would not be considered to be dialects
of Ada.

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