Re: Why ADA?

[taurus!aldebaran!schweige@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)]

In article <2697@fedfil.UUCP> news@fedfil.UUCP (news) writes:
>In article <1992Mar21.235624.1@jaguar.uofs.edu>, das11@jaguar.uofs.edu writes:
> 
>> 	at my university, they stress ada development.  why should i
>> 	program in ada when there is c?  what does ada offer me?  please,
>> 	do not give me the crap that c is a glorified assembler.
>
>> 	if i program with good oo style, what does ada buy me that i
>> 	can not do in c?
> 
>Job security (since the same product in Ada will take many times as long
>as in C), the undying gratitude of senator Robert Byrd, numerous generals
>and other misinformed people in DOD, the gratitude of numerous psychiatrists,
>whose services you will require, the gratitude of this nations enemies, since
>Ada makes critical American software less reliable and many times longer
>in development than it should be...  Need more?
>
>Ted Holden
>HTE

Ted - 

You've said many of these things before, and have never publicly backed your
claims of "less reliable" with any verifiable facts.  Care to try now?
You seem to think that those of us who are both users and developers of
mission critical software would intentionally drive up costs and lower 
reliability. I somehow doubt rather strongly that that is the case.

You have also never established that you have programmed anything on the
scale of the projects that Ada is geared for.  Have you?

I think that many of us are quite able to take a somewhat unbiased view,
when given facts to work from.  Ad hominum attacks such as yours, though (and,
to some extent, my response) accomplish little.

And please don't bother to quote Tony Hoare to us again, I think we pretty
much dealt with that one last time.

Jeff Schweiger
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