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,FROM_ADDR_WS, INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: vershokv@v e r s h o k v Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/12 Message-ID: <7cb2gd$mm6@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 454197157 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> Organization: news-for-world Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , "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