From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: errors in CACM column
Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 01:14:40 GMT
Date: 2003-05-02T01:14:40+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4Ejsa.170716$gK.261856@rwcrnsc52.ops.asp.att.net> (raw)
Robert Glass' Practical Programmer column argues that popular languages
are domain-independent (eg C), but good ones are domain-dependent (eg
Fortran). He then says that Ada was designed to be domain-specific for
real-time, but was converted to "make a domain-independent sow's ear out
of a domain-specific silk purse." My understanding is that is incorrect
as history. He then says "... and Ada died the kind of slow death that
PL/1 has." This appears incorrect as current events, as, say, a glance at
comp.lang.ada vs comp.lang.pl1 shows. My understanding is that Ada
started as domain-independent (or at least "everything the DOD wants
programmed) , and has migrated to the domain of "robust" programs. Could
someone who knows please comment (preferably to CACM Letters)?
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2003-05-04 22:26 ` errors in CACM column Larry Kilgallen
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