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=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_HOTMAIL_RCVD2, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,4d3e59455e947c5e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.77.41 with SMTP id p9mr1631123paw.8.1344848629935; Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:03:49 -0700 (PDT) Path: p10ni47248941pbh.1!nntp.google.com!npeer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news-in-01.newsfeed.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!novia!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!94.232.116.11.MISMATCH!feed.xsnews.nl!border-1.ams.xsnews.nl!xlned.com!feeder7.xlned.com!multikabel.net!newsfeed10.multikabel.net!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!80.86.168.138.MISMATCH!news-feed.eu.lambdanet.net!news.bcc.de!newsfeeder.ewetel.de!82.197.223.103.MISMATCH!feeder3.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 13:52:57 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <5eac9c8b-7559-4a4e-84fe-6e05c918d639@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.203.202.88 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1344286782 1421 127.0.0.1 (6 Aug 2012 20:59:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:59:42 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=62.203.202.88; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Received-Bytes: 2145 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-08-06T13:52:57-07:00 List-Id: Hello, Coming from Borland Pascal, the ancestor of Delphi (long time ago :-) ), an= d other Pascal dialects, I'd say the main improvement with Ada is safety in= terms of long-term development. As your code base is growing, you want to = know that your code base will survive jumps like a compiler change or an ar= chitecture change (like Windows 32 bits to 64 bits, or Windows to Linux, or= ...). There is a comparison (not 100% up-to-date) here http://p2ada.sf.net/pascad= a.htm Business, desktop applications ? Sure! It's my day job. And here is a compa= ny doing /only/ that: http://konad.de/english.htm . There are probably othe= r Ada shops like that. Anyone ? Cheers Gautier