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: 103376,fee8802cc3d8334d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Kio@X.com Subject: Re: Ada and Java. different behaviour. casting long to int problem. Date: 1999/06/19 Message-ID: <7khjk0$1pfc@drn.newsguy.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 491607051 References: <7jt2c0$vrb@drn.newsguy.com> <7k57vb$1ipf@drn.newsguy.com> <3766650F.705125B7@pwfl.com> <7k64t7$igo$1@its.hooked.net> <7k689a$ci2@drn.newsguy.com> <3766C842.E1EAB60A@pwfl.com> <3766D1CC.D712895E@itools.symantec.com> <7k8nn5$qcb$1@its.hooked.net> <3767E8A2.EF1A0570@itools.symantec.com> <7k8tv3$3gm@drn.newsguy.com> <7kg9is$85g@dfw-ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: This is Richard Riehle appropriating time on his wife's email account. > >And that is why Ada is the correct choice for safety-critical software. > Of course, Ada is the best choice for that (and also the best choice as a general purpose language as well) Given that Ada is the best for safety, any idea when we keep hearing more news about defense companies and places in NASA using C++ now and even Java instead of Ada? I've heared 2 news about some projects in these areas switching to C++ from Ada. It is the most stupied thing to do, but it seems now that the mandate is off, every idiotic manager out there is making their own descision with no understanding of the facts, and many are not choosing Ada. This will cost us tax payers more money in wasted and failed software projects, and will also lead to unsafe software. And it does not seem any one is doing anything abou it. not only that, we are back to using 50 languages, and each department selecting which language to use on its own. so the defense and space industry is back to where we were in 1970. Kio