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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-23 00:24:49 PST From: "Martin Dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <5be89e2f.0107222015.5140bbae@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 08:26:40 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 NNTP-Posting-Host: sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Message-ID: <3b5bcf07$1@pull.gecm.com> X-Trace: 23 Jul 2001 08:15:19 GMT, sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!btnet-peer!btnet-peer0!btnet-feed5!btnet!newreader.ukcore.bt.net!pull.gecm.com!sg2c11210.dsge.edinbr.gmav.gecm.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10446 Date: 2001-07-23T08:26:40+01:00 List-Id: I'd have to agree that there is some crappy Ada code out there (some of it written be me I'm sure :-). But the worst offender I came across was trying to write in a COBOL-style - yet to my knowledge he never had ever even seen any COBOL code! codesavvy wrote in message news:5be89e2f.0107222015.5140bbae@posting.google.com... > Actually I responded in other posts in this thread that Ada is an [snip] > for switching. When I say there is plenty of crappy code written in > Ada I was pointing out that using Ada provides no guarantee that high > quality code will be produced. I would actually like to see Ada more [snip]