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,ed45459060d00f87 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Andrzej Lewandowski Subject: Re: US-MN-Mpls >>> Ada Software Engineers <<< Date: 1999/02/11 Message-ID: <36C2FC85.1561@mchugh.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 443247137 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <79scn2$k04@drn.newsguy.com> <36C2036B.D2B4B148@pwfl.com> <36C24646.804BC44E@stny.lrun.com> <36C2F746.7A5A7FB@pwfl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@alpha.net X-Trace: homer.alpha.net 918748408 199.88.143.1 (Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:53:28 CDT) Organization: McHugh Software International MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:53:28 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-02-11T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote: > > The language design itself was carefully specified to reduce the > probability of errors that might result from ambiguous syntax or unsafe > features. > > There is, of course, no reason why Ada can't be used in most any other > area where you would want a general purpose, full featured programming > language. The added safety may not be critical, but it is a plus. (Who > wants to have their GUI app crash because they ran an array index beyond > the bounds & didn't catch the problem until the software is released?) > Ada also provides features which help in the development & lifespan of > large, long lived systems. You don't generally think of Ada in the > context of quick & dirty throw-away apps. >From comp.lang.eiffel: "Why Eiffel is not popular? Because before you start coding in Eiffel you have to spend some time THINKING". It seems that this applies to Ada, too... A.L.