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From: nma123@msn.com
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/20
Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5odfhs$hqt@drn.zippo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.866577250@merv


>
>Paul says
>
><<1. Ada is not and never was a programmer's language. It was never
>meant to be. It was imposed upon companies that the DOD contracts in
>an effort  to create more reliable (i.e. bug free) products. They saw
>how much time and money was spent in fixing problems after a system
>was delivered and operational in the field. It is excessivly
>type-casted and cumbersome to use.>>
>

Let me hear you say again that after you wasted 2 days chasing a bug
in someone's C program that would never have happend in an
Ada program becuase the Ada compiler will let you know about it right
away.

If, for a period of one week,  I can collect one cent for each day wasted by 
every C programmer chasing bugs that would otherwise be cought by 
an Ada compiler, I bet I would have enough money collected to balance 
the United States fedral budget, or come close to doing so. 

But again, if every one used a strong typed language such as Ada, there 
will be little bugs to fix, and for those programmers  who make their livining 
fixing and maintaining  others' C code will start having a hard time finding 
more work to do :)

so please every one, keep writing in C  !

Nasser




  reply	other threads:[~1997-06-20  0:00 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
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
1997-06-19  0:00   ` Anonymous
1997-07-22  0:00 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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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