From: vershokv@v e r s h o k v
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/12
Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7cb2gd$mm6@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Oxxg0hEb#GA.207@nih2naad.prod2.compuserve.com
In article <Oxxg0hEb#GA.207@nih2naad.prod2.compuserve.com>, "Michael says...
>Leaning Ada has taught me
>alot about how little I know about software engineering.
Actually this is true with me too. Ada forced me to also think about what
I am doing, i.e. in a language where one can mix apples
and oranges, one does not need to think much about if they are assigning
apples to oranges at the time, but in Ada, the compiler will complain, and
so the programmer must stop to think.
This I believe the main reason why programmers in general do not like Ada.
Ada forces one to think about what they are doing to get a program to compile
cleanly.
Your typical programmers enjoy running the program, they do not enjoy
compiling them. They enjoy running the program even if it crashes every
5 seconds rather than having to deal with the compiler whining on them.
I am always amazed how many programmers get frustrated if the program takes
one more hour to compile clean, yet, they give no thought to spending days
debugging something in C or C++, something that the Ada compiler could
probably have found for them in seconds.
Vershokv
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1999-03-10 0:00 The future of Ada Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Gunther Dragoski
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Dino Gianisis
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Olivier Devuns
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-11 0:00 ` kirk
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12 0:00 ` steve
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Mark D. McKinney
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-26 0:00 ` R. Rabeau
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-03-12 0:00 ` vershokv [this message]
1999-03-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-04-16 0:00 ` s.shering
1999-03-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-03-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-03-29 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Stephen Thomas
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-31 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-03-31 0:00 ` west
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-04-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-02 0:00 ` kewick
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-03 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
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1990-08-15 18:49 The Future " Edward V. Berard
1990-08-15 23:05 ` Michael Endrizzi
1990-08-15 15:19 Michael Endrizzi
1990-08-15 17:52 ` Jerry Callen
1990-08-17 17:21 ` Steve Vestal
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