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: 103376,76f19a5f656fa576 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Marin D. Condic" Subject: Re: Embedded Systems Survey Date: 2000/05/05 Message-ID: <391310C4.809E7C3E@quadruscorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619614936 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <390746A1.740C9D08@averstar.com> <3907DD01.4D0B9987@quadruscorp.com> <8epsik$k3q$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Organization: Quadrus Corporation X-Sender: "Marin D. Condic" (Unverified) X-Server-Date: 5 May 2000 15:22:43 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-05T15:22:43+00:00 List-Id: Ted Dennison wrote: > When asked in a poll of software developers, either question is liable > to produce the same answer. Better yet would be to test it somehow (or > at least poll customers, then check against the implementation > languages). > Cheaper, faster and better are things that are testable by experiment. (Maybe and *expensive* experiment, but definitely something you can measure.) Opinions about what is cheaper, faster, better won't tell you much. I'd be willing to bet that if you polled 1000 Java programmers about what is cheaper/faster/better they would say Java. Poll 1000 Cobol programmers and the answer is likely to be similar. And all those opinions may be wrong - the answer might be APL or Pascal or something else. As a promoter of the use of Ada, I'd like to know a) what do people prefer, b) why do they prefer it, c) what they dislike and d) why do they dislike it. Knowing that, we might better market the language to those who are not currently using it. MDC -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic - Quadrus Corporation - http://www.quadruscorp.com/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ q u a d r u s c o r p . c o m Visit my web site at: http://www.mcondic.com/ "I'd trade it all for just a little more" -- Charles Montgomery Burns, [4F10] ======================================================================