Re: Ada (was Rival JSF teams fly final STOVL flights with flair, highlight strengths)

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"Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> wrote in message news:<rbkb7.868$Pa.443446345@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>...
> "Bob" <rfritz@home.com> wrote in message news:3B6A15C3.8B3A9277@home.com...
> Ada continues as a legacy language, with systems being derived from the
> projects of the 80s/early 90s, but there are not a lot of new starts.

From my experience C/C++ counts as a legacy language. For my work
Fortran 90/95 is the current language.

Legacy language = we got burnt, so no longer use it; OR the college
kids are no longer taught it, so we've switched to the flavour of the
month.

In our case, we got burnt. We took working Fortran, wrote glue C++,
and had a product that failed on three counts: time scale, budget, and
doing the job.

Choose the the language that is best for the job - I wouldn't use
Fortran to write an arcade game, and I wouldn't see C++ as the best
language for solving maths systems. Ada is a lot like Algol-68, and
that was to me the 'crsipest' language I ever used.