From: mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn)
Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed?
Date: 1999/03/24
Date: 1999-03-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbl0d$17$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
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"Mike Silva" <mjsilva@jps.net> writes:
|> I've noticed that Ada95 is conspicuously absent when OO languages are
|> discussed on the net. One would get the impression that C++, Java,
|> Smalltalk and Eiffel are the only big players. Any thoughts as to why this
|> is?
Ada programmers have often very different personalities than Java
programmers. Ada programmers enjoy their language silently and write some
of the world's most critical code in it. They know the quality of their
programming environment and they do not need continued public reassurance
from the trade press and the news group mob about their choice of tools.
To Java programmers, it seems to be much more important to swim with
the herd, to have the latest and greatest language, the language that
every child knows thanks to the gigantic marketing departments behind it.
Ada is a strongly typed language, Java is a strongly hyped language.
Ada programmers do not need the assistence of marketing departments
in the usability evaluation of programming environments.
I have nothing against Java itself, it is indeed one of the nicer
languages around, just like Ada95 and Eiffel. It just causes in me
a slight aversion if something becomes a bit too popular, and this
has happened with Java.
Markus
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Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
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1999-03-23 0:00 Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Mike Silva
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Gautier
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Kevin
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Keith Thompson
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-24 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-24 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bglbv
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Mike Harrison
1999-04-13 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-23 0:00 ` fred
1999-03-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn [this message]
1999-03-25 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Bob Munck
1999-03-25 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
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