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=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,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: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Ada rotting? (was: What ada 83 compiler is *best*) Date: 1998/12/08 Message-ID: <366D5368.C48ED669@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420092113 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@nameserver.pwfl.com References: <366822F5.D80741EE@XXX_nospam_stelnj.com> <366C2564.1C17E3EE@pwfl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > > Marin David Condic writes: > > > To a large extent, the destiny of Ada is what we make of it. ... > > You're replying to someone who's goal in life is to retire at age > 50..55. > > ;-) > Retire to do what? Sit back and rot along with all that software? ;-) I'd like to retire next year. Or even this afternoon - if I could work that out with the Lottery Commission. But if I did, I'd do so to persue other interests besides developing engine controls in Ada. Like maybe writing the Great American Operating System in Ada. Or maybe tilt at some windmills and make Ada the new language of choice for programming Financial Analysis applications. I guess I'm one of the crowd who has grown tired of those who simply follow the crowd and cave in to C++/Java/Whatever because that's the way the wind is blowing. I'd rather take the useful technology that's available and build more out of it than waste my time calling other people names because they won't give in to whatever trend I think they ought to follow. -- Marin D. Condic Real Time & Embedded Systems, Propulsion Systems Analysis United Technologies, Pratt & Whitney, Large Military Engines M/S 731-95, P.O.B. 109600, West Palm Beach, FL, 33410-9600 Ph: 561.796.8997 Fx: 561.796.4669 "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- G.B. Shaw