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,FROM_ADDR_WS autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a9bbfb8cd49f1a51 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 09:30:22 +0200 From: Erlo Haugen <"elh whirlpool terma spot com"> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Isn't this in favour of Ada?? References: <42d64dde$0$64794$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> <1121352985.715265.125490@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <42e0a08e$0$72206$edfadb0f@dread12.news.tele.dk> Organization: TDC Totalloesninger NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.163.1.105 X-Trace: 1122017422 dread12.news.tele.dk 72206 193.163.1.105:50477 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3724 Date: 2005-07-22T09:30:22+02:00 List-Id: Jeffrey Carter wrote: > Ada is a language for SW engineers; C and its offspring are languages > for coders. Since we allow coders to choose languages, it's not > surprising that they choose coders' languages. > But isn't engineering (at its best) supposed to be independent of the language chosen? > > Why don't we allow construction workers to design bridges and choose the > materials? Because when they fail, we lose enormous lawsuits, and that > more than offsets the savings obtained. Because when they fail, people > die in ways that attract the attention of regulators. When the same is > true of SW, perhaps we will see a distinction between SW engineers and > coders, and Ada will become more prevalent. > You have a point, but most software is not like bridges, it's more like garden houses: if something goes wrong, it is inconvenient, but not fatal. I do hope that adequate engineering processes are used for critical software. -- Erlo ----- The statements and opinions are mine and does not neccesarily reflect those of my employers