From: pvanbell@mhv.net (Paul Van Bellinghen)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/07/04
Date: 1997-07-04T20:09:58+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <33bd5635.5873324@news.mhv.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33BC2364.4485@gsg.eds.com
>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.
>
When I started this thread, I simply argued that C was easier to use
than Ada, not that it is more robust. Of course Ada is more robust
than C. The question is whether a commercial firm can be convinced
that it will somehow make more money by using Ada over C/C++. I
suppose customer satisfaction in getting a less buggy product should
be an incentive. Also, for a multiprocessor environment, tasking can
be used very effectively in creating a system that runs tasks in
parallel, making the user application S/W faster and easier to use.
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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 ` 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
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 [this message]
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Mays
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
1997-06-20 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 ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
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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