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: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/02/08 Message-ID: <79lcn6$rlp$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 441823755 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <77ledn$eu7$1@remarQ.com> <77pnqc$cgi$1@newnews.global.net.uk> <8p64spq5lo5.fsf@Eng.Sun.COM> <77t3ld$nou$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79ce4s$lfq$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79chc7$ko6@drn.newsguy.com> <79dodb$rhf$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <79jeos$bu4@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <79k65l$s0t@drn.newsguy.com> <79kd5j$q5r@bgtnsc01.worldnet.att.net> <79klod$qud@drn.newsguy.com> <79l722$nc7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x4.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Mon Feb 08 00:56:09 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-02-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <79l722$nc7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, atomly@my-dejanews.com wrote: > OK, I agree with you that C++ and Java are better than > Ada (though I have no real experience with Ada) Isn't it remarkable how people don't let a little thing like ignorance and lack of experience inhibit them in stating opinions in the programming language field :-) There are probably for example, more people who know nothing about COBOL and are sure it is junk, than there are COBOL programmers, and that is for sure true of Ada (there are more certainly more people who know that Ada is useless without knowing anything about it, than there are people who know Ada -- just the other day I talked to someone quite well known who shall be nameless, who made a casual negative comment on Ada, not knowing who I was, and when I questioned it, she was quick to admit she knew nothing about Ada, and was just repeating "what she had heard". Well I guess it makes life simpler if you don't have to waste time bothering with facts and data in formulating your opinions! -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own