Re: Newbee question

[john@nospam.demon.co.uk (John McCabe)]

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 20:49:02 -0500, "Eric Robert"
<synapzzz@hotmail.com> wrote:

>Well, yes and no. I am not a student anymore and I know quite a few
>languages. But not ADA even if I hear of it when I was a student at the
>University.

You mightlike to call it Ada ;-)

>I must say that, being a senior C++ programmer, ADA seems to me like a
>language that isn't very usefull & efficient. Sorry to say but it seems like
>a languages for dummies!

It is a language that is designed to be safe and readable. It is more
often than not used on large scale programs where many developers may
be involved and which require high reliability. With staff turnover
etc, its readability ensures that maintenance of the code doesn't pose
too many problems.

> I when to the library to get a book and now I can
>do usefull stuff

>The web is not crowded with ADA samples & resources so I
>needed a book!

What's wrong with http://www.adapower.com for example? Have you looked
at http://www.adaic.org? Where can you download the ANSI C++ Standard?

>I can't belive this... The community is much smaller than
>what I'm used to (C and C++).

Of course it is, but you'll probably find it is much more helpful
towards someone with the right attitude, and there is far less noise
than in any of the C/C++ based newsgroups.

>But still : it was worth to learn. It maybe
>good for learning and research (i.e. when you're NOT a experienced
>programmmer) but not for real life usage when CPU & ressources are critical.

In fact it is very good where CPU & resources are critical. When was
the last time you built a system in C++ based on a Mil-Std-1750A
processor (1.3MIPS) using 48kBytes of RAM and requiring an action to
be performed in response to an interrupt within 8us?

>Sorry but learning it doesn't make me a believer ;-)

Only experience can do that, but you'll get there.


Best Regards
John McCabe

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