From: "James Hague" <jamesh_fake@volition-inc.com>
Subject: Re: Universities in the US
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:52:33 -0500
Date: 2001-05-15T13:52:33-05:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b0178bd$1_2@newsfeeds> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 9drsqc$mkm$1@nh.pace.co.uk
Marin David Condic wrote:
>
> Perceptually speaking, I think Ada is experiencing some resurgence of
> interest in the programming community. Especially with student
programmers.
> Perhaps there is becoming a realization that C/C++/Java/etc. just don't
> offer as many nice features as Ada does for serious, industrial-strength,
> larger-scale development. Hopefully, the trend will continue.
Way back when, Ada had a bad reputation for being a bloated language and
requiring bloated and unreliable compilers. What's amusing now is that Ada
is a simpler language than what has become the norm (i.e. C++)! And writing
a C++ compiler is more daunting thant writing an Ada compiler.
James
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-15 14:46 Universities in the US Faisal Halim
2001-05-15 15:22 ` Barry Margolin
2001-05-15 15:43 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-15 16:04 ` Wade Humeniuk
2001-05-15 17:50 ` Kevin Rigotti
2001-05-15 18:33 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-15 18:52 ` James Hague [this message]
2001-05-15 19:51 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-15 21:24 ` Lieven Marchand
2001-05-16 17:00 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-16 19:01 ` Universities in the US - Garbage Collector for GNAT? Matthias Kretschmer
2001-05-16 19:35 ` Marin David Condic
2001-05-16 20:12 ` Matthias Kretschmer
2001-05-16 14:11 ` Universities in the US Evan Prodromou
2001-05-15 19:29 ` Ted Dennison
2001-05-16 22:19 ` David Thornley
2001-05-15 16:12 ` Gary Scott
2001-05-15 20:10 ` Eric de Groot
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