From: john@assen.demon.co.uk.nospam (John McCabe)
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/24
Date: 1999-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36f952a4.384584@news.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877ls7porm.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com
Chris Morgan <mihalis@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> > Ada's installed base is much larger than Eiffel
>> I wasn't trying to compare Ada and Eiffel. I was merely saying that one
>> reason people aren't familiar with Ada is because it's not as commonly
>> used as C++ or Java.
>
>That's true. However Ada isn't even as visible as it might be given
>the market value of Ada projects, since a lot of them are embedded
>and/or defence projects (Boeing 777, USAF F-22, Channel Tunnel
>signals, London Jubilee line, UKRN Trident sub CCCI - notable but not
>"newsworthy").
Perhaps it's just that you hear about languages when they don't work -
everyone heard about Ariane 5, but most other Ada projects have been
successful so you don't hear about it. C++ on the other hand is used
for a hell of a lot of Windows apps, and has anyone ever seen one of
those that really worked?
Best Regards
John McCabe <john@assen.demon.co.uk>
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1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John McCabe [this message]
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Mike Harrison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-03-25 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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