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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,efe03f20164a417b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-28 09:10:38 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!news.rwth-aachen.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!xlink.net!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!tali.hsc.colorado.edu!freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU!bl884 From: bl884@freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU (Wes Groleau) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: An observation of Ada (may offend) Date: 28 Mar 1995 14:48:40 GMT Organization: University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO Message-ID: <3l97k8$abr@tali.hsc.colorado.edu> References: <19950321.230144.51@banana.demon.co.uk> <3k00no$8qv@agate.berkeley.edu> <3kfg4d$5dc@felix.sea Reply-To: bl884@freenet.HSC.Colorado.EDU (Wes Groleau) NNTP-Posting-Host: freenet.hsc.colorado.edu Date: 1995-03-28T14:48:40+00:00 List-Id: In a previous article, kevq@banana.demon.co.uk (Kevin F. Quinn) says: >I don't know about the US, but in Europe, and especially in the UK, >Ada is booming. There is far more Ada work about than there are >people to do it. Tell them to fax their job ads to me - my company is laying off about a hundred a month >Of course, most PC software is still developed in the old >hack-and-slash method. You won't see them using Ada. They'll use >C++, but only because they can write C with it :-> I recently read a book on Object-Oriented Programming, thinking I was going to learn some really hot techniques. Instead, page after page I kept thinking "I've always done it this way!" Too many programmers still think implementation rather than abstraction--just because Ada folks don't use the same jargon as the OOP folks doesn't mean they don't get the same benefits. C++ strikes me as an attempt to get some of the benefits of Ada-83 without giving up your dearly prized ability to ensure that your manager won't have a clue what your code means.