From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
To: rick.thorne@lmco.com
Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best*
Date: 1998/12/03
Date: 1998-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3666F5A4.2CCF6592@maths.unine.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: to.reply-0312980902120001@129.197.97.40
> > If you have any statistics on the "rotting" of Ada I would love to see them.
> Why don't you read your Sunday paper, friend? Check out the want ads. MY
> "statistical" survery tells me this: for every Ada job opening there are
> literally - LITERALLY - dozens for Java and C++.
For every job opening for high-quality restaurants there are dozen for McDonalds.
Will you conclude high-quality restaurants are disappearing ?
Of course, the computing world loves convergence to standards (C++, Windows).
It's a good thing.
Why does Ada still exists, then ? Why are Ada95 compilers beeing developed ?
It's surely because of some advantages. E.g:
- the most bugs are found at compile time in Ada (a fraction of a second) and
during debugging sessions in Fortran, C, C++ (it may take hours);
- an Ada source is easy to read.
The bad point for Ada is that these two advantages concerns a small part of
software industry.
- it's a threat for a programmer hired by a company: an Ada program is
too early finished and debugged; once the guy has been sacked, the source can
be maintained and reworked without him!
- since the main stream software industry lives from selling buggy updates to
buggy programs, Ada is absolutely not the language to use ;-) !
--
Gautier
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1998-12-03 0:00 What ada 83 compiler is *best* Rick Thorne
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Gautier [this message]
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-09 0:00 ` John McCabe
1998-12-08 0:00 ` David Gillon
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-09 0:00 ` P.S. Norby
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-12-11 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-14 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-09 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-12-03 0:00 ` marc j bejerano
1998-12-04 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-04 0:00 ` Ada rotting? (was: What ada 83 compiler is *best*) Roga Danar
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-07 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
[not found] ` <366D6BF8.B1F4C1C0@hercii.mar.lmco.com>
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-07 0:00 ` David Botton
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-12-07 0:00 ` What ada 83 compiler is *best* Jeff Carter
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
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1998-11-18 0:00 Nobody
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Rick Thorne
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-11-18 0:00 ` dennison
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-21 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-21 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-21 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-19 0:00 ` whiter5195
1998-11-23 0:00 ` Charlie McCutcheon
[not found] ` <36534040.F30A5E5B@hercii.mar.lmco.com>
1998-11-21 0:00 ` Steve Kerr
1998-11-21 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1998-11-21 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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