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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public From: "Kenneth W. Sodemann" Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/10/28 Message-ID: <635d89$2hc$1@news2.alpha.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 285611563 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 Organization: AVISTA Inc. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: John Black, in message <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> spewed forth... >I have tried and tried to program with Ada, but it is downright >impossible. I just don't see how anyone could - or would want to - >use this outdated piece of crap. It's back to C++ and Java for me. >Hopefully Ada and other languages will go the way of the dinosaur and >get hit by a meteor, disappearing from the face of the earth. 1.) Nice troll!! 2.) I find it interesting that YOU fail, and then blame the language for YOUR inability to grasp it. 3.) It is admirable that you are able to come out and let everyone know that you are incapable of adapting to a new language, even though I cannot think of anything you can do in the other languages mentioned that you cannot do in some way using Ada. Maybe you are just lost without your wizards? 4.) Many of the Ada projects that I have worked on would have been much more difficult, or down right impossible, to manage in C or C++ (I have not done large scale development (or even testing) of anything written in Java, so I cannot comment on that). Add to that the fact that for certain types of projects, you also get a lower cost of development and (especially) maintenance, a tendency for less bugs, etc. Of course, if you are mostly writing Windows apps, then VC++ is a lot better environment than _anything_ you are going to get for Ada (at least at this time). Then again, we are coming back to "use the right tool for the right job", and right now, VC++ or VB (or maybe even Java) is often the right tool for that job (though Ada is making some in roads there, but the tools are not quite on par with VC++ yet (IMHO)). -- with Std_Disclaimer; use Std_Disclaimer; Signature.Put (Name => Ken Sodemann, E_Mail => kwsodema@avistainc.com Web => http://www.pcii.net/~stuffel Company_Web => http://www.avistainc.com);