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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-10 04:24:07 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Marin David Condic Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 07:22:11 -0500 Organization: Quadrus Corporation Message-ID: <3A5C53F3.5171CE3F@acm.org> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <3A51EC04.91353CE7@uol.com.br> <3A529C97.2CA4777F@home.com> <3A53CB9E.EA7CF86C@uol.com.br> <3A5466DE.811D43A5@acm.org> <932aol$ikc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <932mi6$r2k$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9343b1$3g5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <934iuf$eqv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <937kc7$ssq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93c0e9$4u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93e33l$tfu$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93ekmo$a14$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93f73f$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93f9tu$p2r$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93fphu$64l$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <87zoh0lall.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b4.8f Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 10 Jan 2001 12:22:44 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3859 Date: 2001-01-10T12:22:44+00:00 List-Id: It wasn't all that bad. It had a more C-ish flavor to it with a dash of Fortran thrown in for seasoning. It was not as cryptic as C - mostly. The real reason for ditching it (beside it being rather dated and better concepts had come along) was the whole reason for Ada. The DoD was supporting dozens - or hundreds - of different, obscure programming languages all over the place. It would save money to not do that. MDC Florian Weimer wrote: > What was so special about this language that the DoD wanted to get rid > of it, BTW? -- ====================================================================== 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/ "Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." -- P. J. O'Rourke ======================================================================