From: steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/19
Date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5oa3ro$52u$1@news.pacifier.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 33a1c14d.155787285@news.mhv.net
In article <33a1c14d.155787285@news.mhv.net>, pvanbell@mhv.net says...
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>I've been a real-time embeded Software Engineer since 1975. I've used
>assembly,Pascal & Fortran (not in real-time), C, and now Ada. I think
>that there are basicly two reasons why Ada did not replace C as the
>real-time embeded language of choice - in the commercial world and
>recently in the military.
>
>
>1. Ada is not and never was a programmer's language...[snip]
>
>2. Ada is realy a high level language...[snip]
I disagree with both statements (other replies give specific examples).
I attribute Ada's lack of market penetration to it's lack (until recently)
of inexpensive development tools.
For the past 15-20 years you could buy inexpensive Pascal and C compilers
from a number of vendors. While Ada has been around for quite some time
now, until recently it was just too expensive for the casual user. It has
only been since the advent of GNAT that I have even looked seriously at
the language.
IMHO
Steve Doiel
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-13 0:00 Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` nma123
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-25 0:00 ` Van Snyder
1997-06-26 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-30 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-02 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Doiel [this message]
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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1997-06-18 0:00 Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-18 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Anonymous
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-17 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-06-19 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` John G. Volan
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Yasmiin S. Davis
1997-07-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-14 0:00 ` Ken Mays
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Bertrand Meyer
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Nick Leaton
1997-07-22 0:00 ` Dr. Vladimir Il'ich Fomin
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Roy Grimm
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Donovan Baarda
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Don Harrison
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-23 0:00 ` Joachim Durchholz
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-20 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1997-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1997-06-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1997-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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