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From: nma123@msn.com
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/20
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Date: 1997-06-20T00:00:00+00:00
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>
>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