Re: IBM Acquires Rational Ada

["Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca>]

Wes Groleau wrote:
>>> pretty. Any level of difficulty starts discouraging the average user and
>>> pointing them down the path of least resistance.
> 
> That, unfortunately is a bigger key than just with libraries.
> 
> With C, you can lean on the keyboard and almost generate
> something that will compile.   Many people will dump Ada
> about the fifth time their program is rejected.  They'll
> never get far enough to find out that it would have had
> fewer errors.

It is true that learning to do things the "Ada way" will
create some frustration in beginners. However, I can say
that I am always grateful for what the compiler finds up
front.

The challenge is to educate people that fighting with
the compiler is much preferred over looking
for memory leaks and other odd corruption problems.  In other
words quality time spent with your Ada compiler is much
less than the quality time you spend with your debugger.

-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg