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: 115aec,8dbb0b6ec705465a X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,75913b4078315ff6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-19 08:01:16 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!netnews.com!xfer02.netnews.com!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!washdc3-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CC03121.EF4052A5@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.realtime,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is Ada preferred over C/C++ for the realtime domain? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:00:49 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1019228475 151.168.144.162 (Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:01:15 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:01:15 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.realtime:5271 comp.lang.ada:22784 Date: 2002-04-19T10:00:49-05:00 List-Id: > > The history of ADA is riddled with blunders and excessive > > overcomplexity. Rabid Adaphiles try to hide all of the embarassing > > details. Here are just a few. Since it was designed in total vacuum, > > nobody even bothered to test the grammer and it was found not to be > > LALR(1). This one mistake contributed to the extremely embarassing > > fact that the first compiler for the full language took 4 years to > > develop and it was written in ML and compiled 1 line per minute. Rabid Adaphobes are so scared of Ada that they post lies to keep people from trying it. :-) -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau