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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,a551d40deb8e8092 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-09 05:30:07 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!pipex!lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk!warwick!not-for-mail From: csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Jules) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: cross-posting and selling Ada Date: 9 Dec 1994 13:29:40 -0000 Organization: University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Message-ID: <3c9m44$7eo@thyme.csv.warwick.ac.uk> References: <3c1p3h$jeu@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: thyme.csv.warwick.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: 1994-12-09T13:29:40+00:00 List-Id: In article <3c1p3h$jeu@gnat.cs.nyu.edu>, dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >For some time now a thread has been running called "Why large companies >don't use Ada", which has been heavily cross-posted. > >Many of the posts are Ada specific, and many are from people supporting >Ada. Yet, we are all sending out a barrage of messages to multiple >newsgroups over and over again emphasizing that large companies don't >use Ada. > >I think it would be useful if at least all the posters to CLA would be >careful with this thread. Change both the subject and the cross-list >post to avoid sending out unintentional negative messages and annoying >other newsgroup readers with ireelevant Ada messages. > >No one is forcing or asking anyone to support Ada in any way, but it seems >worth taking the effort to avoid sending negative publicity by accident :-) > >If readers of C++ newsgroups etc see a long sequence of known Ada people >sending out dozens of messages at least tacitly aggreing to the subject >post, they are bound to assume that it is correct. > >Sure it is the case that not many large companies are using Ada, but it >would sure be nice if the subject had read something like > >"Why aren't more large companies using Ada" > >or > >"Why don't more large companies see the benefits of Ada" > >or something even more neutral! I don't really think that there is a negative message. Okay, there may be a LOT of C programmers out there criticising strong typing, but they are basically just showing how foolish C programmers can be. Personally, this thread has convinced me to learn Ada, and I have just downloaded version 2.00 of GNAT for DOS, so that I can learn it over christmas. It certainly appears to be a better language than C++ (which is what I was going to learn before I saw this thread in comp.programming). -- /* Julian R Hall csusb@csv.warwick.ac.uk Flames should be redirected to /dev/null - I don't know what I'm saying myself so don't expect it to make sense all the time! */