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=2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Bernard J. Girardot" Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/10/31 Message-ID: <345A2AF7.BA6@eccms1.dearborn.ford.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 286227861 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <638nvn$7r8@hacgate2.hac.com> Organization: Ford Motor Company Reply-To: bgirardo@eccms1.dearborn.ford.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-10-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Gluth wrote: > > In article Mike Copeland, > mrcope@primenet.com writes: > >Learning Ada should be considered an > >educational experience, at best, because no one uses it. > > Dang...what HAVE I been doing then, these past few years? > > You ever fly on the 777? The flight control system is in Ada. > If you land in Canada, their air traffic control system is (or will > be...not > sure if it's been delivered) in Ada. > We fly missiles with Ada. Shoot 'em down with Ada, too... > > But hey, I've never done an applet for the web in Ada, or anything else > important like that... HEY! Ada works great as a CGI back end (and I think my code is pretty important!)