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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,FREEMAIL_FROM, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jamess1889@aol.com (JamesS1889) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/24 Message-ID: <4t66fm$4ul@newsbf02.news.aol.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169969892 sender: root@newsbf02.news.aol.com references: <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364) newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com>, "Tim Behrendsen" writes: >I am totally ignorant of Ada, except for a book I flipped through a >long time ago. I use C, because it has the most infrastructure along >with it, including programming talent. I'm in business to make money, >not to push back the frontiers of computer science (the pioneers take >the arrows). Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean. Nevertheless, this is an extremely shallow attitude. You are almost totally ignorant of Ada83, and totally ignorant of Ada95, yet you are dismissing the language based on a symptom. That C is more plentiful (assuming yo are even right) is at best a prediction that C is better than Ada. It is by no means an accurate measurement. At the same time, if Ada can cut your maintenance time and increase your productivity for new applications, then the stand you have taken may just be hurting your "bottom line". >My personal preference is for small nuts-and-bolts languages, anyway. >Ada always seemed too "kitchen sink" for my tastes. Whatever floats your boat. >My question is this, and I really don't mean this snidely: If Ada is so >good, why are the only companies that use it are the ones that deal with >the government, which make them use it? Ada has had plenty of time to >develop the infrastructure that C has developed, so it can't be a "I >don't want to be first" mentality on the part of industry. Or it could be due to all those people who are "totally ignorant of Ada", except for scanning some book when Ada was in its infancy, and nevertheless concludng that Ada is too much "kitchen sink" for their tastes. James Squire mailto:ja_squire@csehp3.mdc.com MDA Avionics Tools & Processes McDonnell Douglas Aerospace http://www.mdc.com Opinions expressed here are my own and NOT my company's "Only one Earth Captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else!" -- Delenn, "Severed Dreams"