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: 103376,8623fab5750cd6aa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!63.223.4.70!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40CF746E.2060509@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics References: <40CEDCB5.9000509@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 22:13:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.4.188 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread3.news.atl.earthlink.net 1087337623 209.165.4.188 (Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:13:43 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:13:43 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1541 Date: 2004-06-15T22:13:43+00:00 List-Id: If someone dreams up something completely new and never been done before, that's wonderful. If someone can dream up a better way of doing something that already exists, that's almost as good. If someone can take an unstable, bug-ridden app and re-engineer it to be stable and reliable, that's still pretty good. If someone re-implements a stable, reliable app in Ada and adds no new capabilities or features, that's interesting, but hardly worth anything to an end user. I think those things should be considered in looking at existing apps built in C/C++. It doesn't need to be at the top of my list, but it shouldn't be at the bottom. MDC Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote: > > Unless that was a typo, I would think that the point > would be to compare _with_ an existing C/C++ > implementation. Why compare where there is no > competition? -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================