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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID 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: "P.S. Norby" Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best* Date: 1998/12/09 Message-ID: <366EEAFB.5FE2@cacd.rockwell.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420568636 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3666F5A4.2CCF6592@maths.unine.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Rockwell - CACD Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Matthew Heaney wrote: > > I should have added this to my list of reasons Ada isn't as popular as C++: > > 6) The mandate. > I don't think the government was trying to "bully us" with the mandate, > they were just trying to manage the process. > > I think their intentions were good, but the management of that process > wasn't so good, and many programmers share the sentiment that the gov't > was trying to ram Ada down their throats. > > As someone pointed out a few years ago, Ada is a large woman, but once > you get your arms around her, you learn to really love her. > I sometimes think all the ex-hippie types don't want to use Ada because of its association with DoD, and all the curmudgeon types don't want to use Ada because it's named after a woman (and she'd not that big.. look at the pictures ;-) ). How do I put half of a smiley on that statement? -- P.S. Norby "No excuses. No embarrasment. No apologies... Ada -- the most trusted and powerful programming language on earth, or in space." -- S. Tucker Taft \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ \\\ ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) ( :) /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// /// (Speaking only for myself)