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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1042f393323e22da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: NKSW39B@prodigy.com (Matthew Givens) Subject: Re: Any research putting c above ada? Date: 1997/05/03 Message-ID: <5ke9ft$15lq@newssvr01-int.news.prodigy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 239036388 Distribution: world References: <5ih6i9$oct$1@waldorf.csc.calpoly.edu> <5k60au$gig@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> <5kb91p$1bc@bcrkh13.bnr.ca> Organization: Prodigy Services Company 1-800-PRODIGY Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Just to add my two cents in again, and to show you that I'm not standing alone and whistling in the wind, I would like to share with you a memo that hit my e-mail on Wednesday. The e-mail was from our project director (remember that I work with a government contractor doing software for the Air Force). It stated that, since the Air Force was relaxing their insistence on using Ada, we would now be able to get rid of the anchor that's been hanging around our necks. In short, we get to ditch Ada for the next version. The memo then went on to discuss other language options and ask for opinions. So, it is not merely I who understand that Ada is not the best language for all tasks, but also the project managers and design folks at my company. C++ was one of the languages discussed to replace Ada, but by no means the only one. So, to all those who told me (more than once) that I was crazy to think C could do anything better than Ada, I am not alone in my understanding. My company shares my opinion, as does the Air Force (after all, they are relaxing the Ada requirement). "What is the speed of dark?" - Iceman