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=1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: Michael Stark Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/11/04 Message-ID: <345F3BC8.2543@cs.umd.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 287885504 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <638nvn$7r8@hacgate2.hac.com> Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-11-04T00:00:00+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... Oh, but I have (well, actually the applet is Ada application code compiled w/ AppletMagic and Java GUI code). Check http://fdd.gsfc.nasa.gov/orb_prop/version2/orbit_propagator.html if you want to look at the ground tracks of actual satellites or play with orbit parameters of your own. Yeah, it's a toy program, but we are looking at doing larger programs in Java and by compiling existing Ada into Java. However, John's point about the superiority of Ada in safety critical systems (I am infering that is the point ;) is well taken. But Ada can do so much more -- I've used it for over 10 years without doing anything safety critical, and still prefer it to the other languages I've used professionally (although now I'm back in school I'm having fun w/ LISP, but I wouldn't want to implement 777 flight software in it ;) Mike -- Michael Stark Goddard Research & Study Fellow University of Maryland, College Park e-mail: mstark@cs.umd.edu "The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you" -- B.B. King http://fdd.gsfc.nasa.gov/orb_prop/version2/orbit_propagator.html