Re: Bye-bye Ada ? (Ada95 Wholesale Changes?)

[Robert Spooner <rls19@psu.edu>]

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> ...
> This Ada95 feature has made it possible for me to very
> quickly produce clean library interfaces, because I am
> not reluctant to make wholesale changes when I
> think it might be beneficial to the client.
> 
> 
> CURIOUSITY POLL?
> 
> I'd be interested if anyone actually uses this type of
> procedure in more "critical" application development roles.
> I am sure that others must take advantage of this, if not
> secretly so? ;-)  Is this type of thing frowned upon by
> DOD projects, or do they even know this type of thing
> happens? Just curious.
> 


I have done this. It's particularly helpful when I haven't gotten the 
design right the first time because of a lack of information early-on. I 
can't imagine doing it in any other language. Ada allows you to use the 
computer for things that computers are good for and humans are not - all 
that consistency checking. When I first was learning Ada I was 
astonished at the percentage of my programs that did exactly what I 
wanted once I had a clean compile. My debugger skills atrophied.

Bob
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