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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,85034d1ac78a66eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-11 06:40:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C8CC1B7.29ACA249@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Operating System References: <3c77b476.322111671@news.cis.dfn.de> <3C88E0D1.89161C16@despammed.com> <3C8A3999.2000301@earthlink.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 09:39:51 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1015857611 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:40:11 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 08:40:11 CST Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21050 Date: 2002-03-11T09:39:51-05:00 List-Id: > > On the robustness/power/features point, obviously > > Ada has a significant advantage over C/C++/Java. > > Not really. I think that remains to be seen. Linux doesn't crash a > lot. It's not "weapons grade" but we're not talking about that. Code That's because thousands of people have been fixing its bugs for ... how long? As good as Ada is in terms of robustness, a hundred Ada developers cannot compete with ten thousand C developers. (A thousand, maybe, but not ten thousand.) That's why I agree with Marin that it must meet some otherwise unfilled need. -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau