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=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 2002:a24:334a:: with SMTP id k71mr2507835itk.14.1551432150516; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 01:22:30 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 2002:a9d:5e83:: with SMTP id f3mr2758895otl.181.1551432150182; Fri, 01 Mar 2019 01:22:30 -0800 (PST) Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder-in1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!y42no62447ita.0!news-out.google.com!v188ni162itb.0!nntp.google.com!y22no62600ita.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2019 01:22:29 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=165.225.84.74; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S NNTP-Posting-Host: 165.225.84.74 References: <2199b15b-d704-403f-a6c4-00fab29792d5@googlegroups.com> <72738cc8-3f65-4cc1-8c61-b1166cb5e3c2@googlegroups.com> <9807ec3a-4c34-4641-acfa-e9cf22de95ce@googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <51611452-1f49-4d8d-b93d-363cbbee29d0@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Ada in command / control systems From: Maciej Sobczak Injection-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2019 09:22:30 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Xref: reader01.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:55729 Date: 2019-03-01T01:22:29-08:00 List-Id: > How would I pass a complex input to a block, a matrix, user credentials? I think it has aggregate signals (or buses), even with multiple levels of n= esting. That is, what looks like a single line on the screen can be an aggr= egate of multiple values, even other aggregates. > The problem is software decomposition and reuse. Simulink's is an ultra= =20 > low-level language, lower than assembler, IMO. Then let's stop talking about Simulink. Since the beginning, I'm stressing = that it's not Simulink vs. Ada, it's rather MBD vs. source code. That is, d= on't argue that MBD does not work just because Simulink does not have your = pet feature. > You mean Simulink has a better diagnostics? You have complained that it crashed after you have hacked its files by hand= . Well, I can imagine that some of its later versions might not crash after= such abuse. Or that some other tool would not crash. If your argument agai= nst MBD depends on some particular tool version crashing, then it's a poor = argument. I have crashed compilers, too. > In my experience OOA&D is dead and buried. None of our customers=20 > mentioned in for more than a decade. Good to know. > They can keep on inventing more and more bizarre forms of "non-code" to= =20 > write, that will not make it work. Then they will keep inventing. Compilers, libraries and frameworks are now = free, which makes them kind of hobby thing. There is no business incentive = to come back to source code, so companies will do their best to keep us fro= m writing it. --=20 Maciej Sobczak * http://www.inspirel.com