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: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public From: Marin David Condic Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/13 Message-ID: <369CBD49.C686157D@pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432155703 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: condicma@bogon.pwfl.com References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CAB38.404C0610@praxis-cs.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Pratt & Whitney Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: diespammer@pwfl.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: A very good point. When Ada first hit the market in 1983, the popular languages were a multitude of C dialects, Fortran, Cobol, and maybe some Pascal. Here we are today where the hot languages are C++, Java and maybe some others. But all that Ada83 code will still compile today with minimal fuss even thought processors and operating systems have changed dramatically. That and the fact that Ada was specifically designed for very large, very long-lived projects and you've got some pretty solid reasons why this should be the choice for projects which aren't into building throw away code. MDC Peter Amey wrote: > > > More commercially-driven languages by contrast change and mutate much > faster. If a supplier had chosen the commercial or fashionable language > of choice that same 15 years ago then maintenance and enhancement would > have been much harder - perhaps even involving a complete rewrite. Even > a change of C++ or Java compiler vendor might create significant amounts > of work. > -- Marin David 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 ***To reply, remove "bogon" from the domain name.*** "Nobody shot me." -- Last words of Frank Gusenberg when asked by police who shot him fourteen times with a machine gun in the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre.