Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Bill Greene wrote:
> Perhaps he is really complaining about the instruction set of a CPU or
> processor architecture (the VAX), and not about a programming language
> (Ada) at all.  Note his assertion that "VAX" violated some alleged
> design goal of Ada.  Having tried unsuccessfully to discover his meaning
> by direct questions, all I can conclude is that he is blaming the Ada
> programming language (which he apparently thought was designed by DEC)
> for the fact that the VAX is non-compliant with the Data General
> instruction set!
> 
My experience is that those who publicly abuse the Ada programming
language often do so out of ignorance or totally incorrect information
about the subject. I'm convinced that the negative views of Ada seen in
this thread must be for one of these reasons. We can hope that those
with some sort of axe to grind with Ada might be willing to take a look
at the complaints they have in light of whatever information we can
provide and perhaps come to see that the complaints are misguided.

In the mean time, keep up the good work of patiently explaining what Ada
is all about. I'm sure it will help others to see its usefulness and
perhaps we'll draw a few more users into the fold. :-)

MDC
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