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From: "Kenneth W. Sodemann" <kwsodema@avistainc.com>
Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!!
Date: 1997/10/30
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Steve Ropa wrote ...
>
>I hate to keep a thread going that started with such an inane comment(see
>subject) but *your* points were very well articulated, and lead me to a
>question.
>As you said, it all boils down to the right tool for the right job.  What
>types of jobs are Ada best suited for?

Personally, all of the Ada based projects that I have worked on have been
real-time embedded avionics systems.  Ada is a very good language for use in
these projects since these type of projects tend to be:

o  Large scale -- many LOC, and many engineers
o  Mission (or in this case, life) critical
o  Maintained over several years.

Ada also allows low level access to the hardware, and produces efficient
object code, both of which are essential to those types of programs.

Having used two different Ada tools for Windows application development
(ObjectAda is one, the other is a soon to be released tool from a different
company), I would say that Ada would be a good fit for large scale
applications development also.  However, the tools are not quite "up to par"
with a product like VC++ yet, and it would be harder to find developers, so
for small to medium sized Windows development projects, VC++ or VB is
probably a better choice (IMHO).

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