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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f849b,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf849b,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 115aec,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid115aec,public X-Google-Thread: 101b33,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid101b33,public From: bellings@badlands.NoDak.edu (Brent A Ellingson) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/21 Message-ID: <786b5h$kki$1@node2.nodak.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 435098455 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369CAB38.404C0610@praxis-cs.co.uk> <369CBD49.C686157D@pwfl.com> <369e73da.1139779@news.mindspring.com> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Complaints-To: abuse@nodak.edu X-Trace: node2.nodak.edu 916893681 21138 134.129.111.66 (21 Jan 1999 04:41:21 GMT) Organization: ND Higher Education Network Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jan 1999 04:41:21 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.java.advocacy,comp.realtime,comp.arch.embedded,comp.object,comp.lang.java.programmer Date: 1999-01-21T04:41:21+00:00 List-Id: Tom Maier (sminstruments@mindspring.com) wrote: : Chris Gray wrote: : >On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Marin David Condic wrote: : > : >> A very good point. When Ada first hit the market in 1983, the popular : >> languages were a multitude of C dialects, Fortran, Cobol, and maybe some : >> Pascal. : > : >Don't forget CORAL-66 ... : > : ...and PLM. And, of course, 1984 saw the introduction of Common Lisp. You will find a number of people who will _strongly_ advocate Common Lisp, for many of the same reasons given here for Ada. Just to be sure no-one is confused, obviously those people would have a number of different reasons, too. Unfortunately, I don't really think enough information was given by the original poster to make a truly worthwhile recommendation... -- Brent Ellingson (bellings@badlands.NoDak.edu) "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." -- Leo Tolstoy