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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fc1b2,206c0414fb5fe3e X-Google-Attributes: gidfc1b2,public X-Google-Thread: 108abf,206c0414fb5fe3e X-Google-Attributes: gid108abf,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,21674edb667218cb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-09 15:28:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: sbdpumbaa@aol.com (bendel boy) Newsgroups: rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval,comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada (was Rival JSF teams fly final STOVL flights with flair, highlight strengths) Date: 9 Aug 2001 15:28:44 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4db10a80.0108091428.468c0b2f@posting.google.com> References: <945d79ff.0107312306.4665e855@posting.google.com> <3b67fd90_2@binarykiller.newsgroups.com> <421a7.235$0e7.91390140@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com> <3B6A1179.26C1C04@home.com> <3B6A15C3.8B3A9277@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 152.163.213.202 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 997396124 26846 127.0.0.1 (9 Aug 2001 22:28:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Aug 2001 22:28:44 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com rec.aviation.military:47411 rec.aviation.military.naval:11631 comp.lang.ada:11714 Date: 2001-08-09T22:28:44+00:00 List-Id: "Ken Garlington" wrote in message news:... > "Bob" 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.