From: ddavenpo@redwood.hac.com (Darren C Davenport)
Subject: Re: Some questions about Ada.
Date: 1996/05/03
Date: 1996-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4md4bi$243@hacgate2.hac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3188F63D.3325@io.com
Dave Jones (davedave@io.com) wrote:
: Carl Laurence Gonsalves wrote:
: > I've got a couple of questions about Ada. I have to confess that I've never
: > written a single line of Ada code. I've got experience in C, C++, Modula-3,
: > Java, and Scheme, and several other languages. I've recently become
: > interested in finding out about Ada, partly because I've noticed that both
: > Java and Modula-3 seem to have been influenced by Ada's design, and I think
: > both languages are very good.
: >
: My opinion: Ada95 is the best all-around language for software engineering.
: C++ is awful. Nevertheless, if I were starting a project today, I would
: probably choose to use C++. Why?: More (and better and cheaper) tools are
: available for C++, more programmers are trained to program in C++, et cetera.
This is very debatable. Development tools for C++ on Unix platforms are not
cheap and they are not very good. Rational's Apex tool, for example, while not
terribly cheap is a much better development environment. There are still
not that many good C++ programmers and any that are good can easily
transition to Ada or any other language. I'd rather have sw engineers
that can adapt to any language.
Darren
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-05-02 0:00 Some questions about Ada Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Spencer Allain
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Darren C Davenport [this message]
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Carl Laurence Gonsalves
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Kevin D. Heatwole
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-06 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-05-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-12 0:00 ` Geert Bosch
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Christopher J. Henrich
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-05-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Richard Kenner
1996-05-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Norman H. Cohen
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-05-06 0:00 ` Matthew M. Lih
1996-05-09 0:00 ` Dave Jones
1996-05-02 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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