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From: Olivier Henley <olivier.henley@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Trivia: Ada packages are great!
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 05:12:44 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2018-11-08T05:12:44-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a732d93-15a8-4326-b031-01b367b992ac@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21e7c96d-a4fe-468b-86cf-045b3765a58b@googlegroups.com>

> Depends. If your enthusiasm for Ada will make you apply for a job in the 
> actual industry where Ada was being used since forever (like in aviation), 
> then, yes, you will touch another compiler, and typically you will have no 
> choice.

I had a friend at Thales... and from what I understand, actually writing software is not for everyone. He and a bunch of others were running unit tests all day long. 

> In any case, as you have seen with its own standard library, it's not like 
> GNAT turns every Ada project into a programming paradise (and it's not like > every C++ project is a programming hell).

Maybe not but an all Ada chain of 3rd parties + grpbuild is miles ahead of VisualStudio proj or cmake or (bunch of scripts + make), all of them as an all C/C++ chain of 3rd party.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-08 13:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-11-02 21:11 Trivia: Ada packages are great! Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 10:39 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-05 12:39   ` Björn Lundin
2018-11-06  8:52     ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-06 13:02       ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-07  7:02         ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-07  8:55           ` G. B.
2018-11-07 12:40           ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08 12:35             ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-08 13:12               ` Olivier Henley [this message]
2018-11-09  2:15               ` gautier_niouzes
2018-11-07  8:53       ` Björn Lundin
2018-11-07 10:56         ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-07 18:27           ` G. B.
2018-11-08 12:20             ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-09  5:45               ` G. B.
2018-11-09  8:24                 ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-09  9:03                   ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-11-12  6:33                   ` G. B.
2018-11-05 17:20   ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 17:56   ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 18:07     ` Simon Wright
2018-11-05 19:37       ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-11-05 20:04         ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 20:12         ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 18:29     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 20:03     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-05 20:40     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08  4:46 ` gautier_niouzes
2018-11-08 12:28   ` Maciej Sobczak
2018-11-08 13:27     ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08 14:44     ` gautier_niouzes
2018-11-08 15:01       ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-08 16:14         ` Simon Wright
2018-11-08 16:28           ` Olivier Henley
2018-11-11  6:49             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-11-11  7:01     ` Randy Brukardt
2018-11-11  7:01   ` Randy Brukardt
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