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,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Lao Xiao Hai Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/08 Message-ID: <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 691492618 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> X-Accept-Language: en X-Server-Date: 9 Nov 2000 05:00:56 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-09T05:00:56+00:00 List-Id: Nicolas Brunot wrote: > Nobody forces you to answer them. > I personally wouldn't like to ride on an airplane programmed by R.Dewar who would certainly > explained he expected the plane to crash because the compiler behaves as he expects ... > Now some people have the right to believe that they are your victim, when Ada remains > nearly unused in comparison with C or Java, due to Ada world reputation. Whoaaaaaaaaaa! Just when I finished agreeing with Nicolas, I crash into this comment. It is rather disappointing. 1) Robert Dewar is a man of great intellectual honesty. He can defend himself, but probably will not respond directly to this unwarranted deprecation. 2) Ada continues to be used for a wide range of safety-critical software and remains the correct choice for the very application cited: avionics and other airborne software in which real people are at risk. The C family of languages, including Java, do not come close when one examines them closely. 3) I would prefer to have Dr. Dewar write the programs for the software on which my airplane depends than many other engineers I know. 4) I thought your original post on this subject was about respect for the individuals in the forum. I guess I thought wrong. Richard Riehle