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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fe0ba9c989d41f19 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: gvrooman@ix.netcom.com(Gerald M Vrooman) Subject: Re: ADA is the most worthless language Date: 1996/12/30 Message-ID: <5a77j5$3nh@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 206665435 references: <58f5jj$1o7@news.fsu.edu> <58j1lp$r0s@cymbal.aix.calpoly.edu> <32C568EA.7B8@earthlink.net> organization: Netcom x-netcom-date: Sun Dec 29 7:57:57 PM CST 1996 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-12-29T19:57:57-06:00 List-Id: In <32C568EA.7B8@earthlink.net> john babrick writes: > >> >> >Is there anything that ADA is good for? Does anybody still use it? >> >Isn't it older that Bob Dole?" >> > >It is as old as people like YOU who whine about having to learn >a new and better technology. I am so tired of being on projects >where "experts" cannot accept that sotftware engineer written >Ada might be a better solution than EE written assembly code or >unstructured C. Grow up, bonehead... > I have nothing personal against Ada, but a lot depends on how much the "software engineers" know about engineering. I once worked for a large aerospace company where they implemented typing so strict that the real engineers were not allowed to divide pounds by square inches. It made it a little difficult to compute psi. Jerry Vrooman