From: Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com>
Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best*
Date: 1998/12/07
Date: 1998-12-07T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <366C0197.49B15B12@spam.innocon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: to.reply-0312980902120001@129.197.97.40
Rick Thorne wrote:
>
> Roga Danar wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > If you have any statistics on the "rotting" of Ada I would love to see them.
>
> *contemptuous chuckle*
>
> 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++. What statistical
> sampling do I need other than this? Yup, Ada IS a great language. I
> agree. The Edsel was a great car, too. How many people do you seeing
> driving them, let alone BUYING them?
>
I hate to tell you this, but the next time you fly in a modern airliner,
the fly-by-wire software controlling it was written in Ada. Most of the
air-traffic-control software in the world, including growing parts in
the USA, is written in Ada. Your life depends on a rotting language.
--
Jeff Carter
E-mail: carter commercial-at innocon [period | full stop] com
"Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries."
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-12-03 0:00 What ada 83 compiler is *best* Rick Thorne
1998-12-03 0:00 ` Gautier
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 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Marc A. Criley
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 ` Roga Danar
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Pat Rogers
1998-12-09 0:00 ` Roga Danar
1998-12-10 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-12-08 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
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 ` Jeff Carter [this message]
1998-12-08 0:00 ` What ada 83 compiler is *best* 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 ` dennison
1998-11-18 0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
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 ` Chris Morgan
1998-11-21 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1998-11-22 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
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