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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d274f280c8c4a8b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-02-23 23:17:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.cwix.com!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!spamfinder.gnilink.net!nwrddc01.gnilink.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C78943B.9030600@mail.com> From: Hyman Rosen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.8+) Gecko/20020218 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Mainstream Ada References: <3C77CF8C.93F1837@adaworks.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 07:17:12 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 162.83.251.10 X-Complaints-To: business-support@verizon.com X-Trace: nwrddc01.gnilink.net 1014535032 162.83.251.10 (Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:17:12 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 02:17:12 EST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20327 Date: 2002-02-24T07:17:12+00:00 List-Id: Richard Riehle wrote: > At present, functional requirements overshadow non-functional > requirements in the world of commercial software. That is, > features are easier to sell than quality. You know we usually fight over Ada vs. C++ issues, but I think I'm going to take Ada's side here. I don't like Ada all that much, but it's mostly for stylistic reasons. I believe, however, that an Ada programmer can pound out features just as well, and just as quickly, as a Java or C++ programmer. Are you really suggesting that commercial software developers who choose Ada will have to forego adding features to their software? That's not going to do much for Ada advocacy!