Re: Mainstream Ada

[Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com>]

Hyman Rosen wrote:

> It's just "Mr. Rosen" - I only have a B.E.E. I was really being
> serious, not satirical, but perhaps I misunderstood what you were
> trying to say. I thought you were saying that developers choose a
> language which will allow them to add more features to their code.
> Did you instead mean that developers choose a lnaguage which has
> more features? Even so, I think Ada can hold its own for number of
> features against other languages!

OK.  I understand.   Let me clarify.   I meant that, it is much easier
to
simply add features than to consider quality.    Sadly, I see this
happen
with Ada developers as well as with developers in other languages.

> As I have said before, I dislike Ada mostly for its looks, not its
> content.

I am reminded of the cartoon vamp, Jessica, in "Who Killed Roger
Rabbit" when she says, "I'm not really bad.  I'm just drawn that way."

> I certainly don't bear the language any ill will. And I
> don't really think I troll, just tease a little. I will defend C++
> against incorrect statements, and vigorously, but there's nothing
> wrong with that.

Nothing at all.   I have even defended it myself from time to time.
In fact, I am currently defending it against a bunch of people who
want to replace it with Visual Basic.   Yuckkk!

> Thinking about Ada style, I am reminded of some lines from the old
> filk song, "Write in C" (to the tune of "Let It Be") -
>
>         I hate the word "procedure", write in C.
>         The government loves Ada, write in C.
>
> {ducking} :-)

Swung on and missed.    :-)

Richard Riehle