Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <warren@ve3wwg.tk>]

"Hyman Rosen" <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
news:1086733411.736049@master.nyc.kbcfp.com...
> Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> > Your assertion that they are so "good" is the point that
...
> No, I'm saying that in absolute terms, people find both
> Linux and Microsoft operating systems and applications
> to be all of those things, and the evidence is the number
> of people using them.

That is fine except that doesn't say that Ada
couldn't improve upon this, were it put to the test.

What other choice do people have?  Do they get to
choose between Ada and C based operating systems?
Not in the general purpose scene AFAIK.

> In c.l.a. you find many posts deriding managers who choose
> to implement systems in C or C++, as if it were somehow
> impossible to do such a thing. As MDC keeps saying, it would
> be nice if you could point to equivalent or equivalently
> large systems in Ada that would demonstrate the same thing
> that Linux and Microsoft do.

But MDC is right in the sense that it  _would_ be
nice to be able to point to something (O/S) in Ada as evidence
to its strengths. Then we'd have something more to compare
with (operating system to operating system). As it stands, we
can only speculate about how much better an Ada based
O/S would be.

You seem to be saying what we have now
is good enough. Some of us, can't agree.

Warren.