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: 103376,8f4d148bde72b77d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" Subject: Re: True confessions RE:Multiple Inheritance Date: 1997/10/09 Message-ID: <343D1AF4.CEA@gsg.eds.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 279195918 References: <875229433.29719@dejanews.com> Organization: EDS MS Reply-To: nospam@gsg.eds.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > > Ada has been bashed for everything. I still haven't figured out why, but > in every shop I've visited, there's always someone who thinks Ada isn't > good enough. Of course Ada isn't good enough: what language is? But if it's better than the language that the basher is pushing, I'll use Ada. I will still be aware of it's defects, and possibly know of more defects than the basher does, but unless I have a superior alternative on the platform I'm using ... > (In fact, right now I'm working on a project where the > designer tried to "simulate" inheritance in Ada 83, and the result is a > bloody mess - a total obfuscation of the language.) A general problem with newbies is that the try to write in "x" as though it were "y". PL/I is a clean language, but some of the ugliest code I've ever seen was PL/I code written by people who were still thinking FORTRAN. > So sally forth, and don't give up! I don't know Sally and have never used FORTH > Matthew Heaney -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Senior Software SE The values in from and reply-to are for the benefit of spammers: reply to domain eds.com, user msustys1.smetz or to domain gsg.eds.com, user smetz. Do not reply to spamtrap@library.lspace.org