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: Nicolas Brunot Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/09 Message-ID: <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 691543556 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> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> X-Accept-Language: fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp6.proxad.net 973761396 213.228.20.204 (Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:16:36 CET) Organization: Guest of ProXad - France MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 10:16:36 CET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Sorry for having mentionned names, I shouldn't have, and that indeed goes against what I said concerning students. I so often read endless and pointless explanations (in my opinion) from him that I easily feel like saying I disagree, and those few words escaped from me .... Concerning the use of Ada, just pick up some papers about software development, and count the words : C, Fortran, Cobol, Java and Ada ...etc ... Do you know that some companies gave up Ada because the difficulties and costs to maintain a team of Ada programmers ruined the benefits of the language itself ? Lao Xiao Hai Wrote: > 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