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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-29 07:13:05 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!193.216.69.35.MISMATCH!dax.net!juliett.dax.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq References: <1051282861.155019@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1051548320.145019@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1051562794.271242@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1051623300.735620@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> From: Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen Message-ID: <7vptn58kaa.fsf@vlinux.voxelvision.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 14:12:30 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.216.12.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@tele2.no X-Trace: juliett.dax.net 1051625550 193.216.12.150 (Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:12:30 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:12:30 MET DST Organization: Tele2 Norway AS Public Access Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36731 Date: 2003-04-29T14:12:30+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen writes: > Preben Randhol wrote: > > C++ > > I don't why you keep harping on C++. I'm not talking > about C++, I'm talking about whether you can take > programmers who don't know Ada and have them produce > a well-designed system in Ada before they acquire a > deep and thorough understanding of the language. > In my experience, yes. But that's more a function of sound design than choice of language. The project I'm thinking of was originally going to be implemented in C, but the customer wanted us to switch to Ada after the design was finished. Design was done mostly in SDL, btw. The programmers got a crash course in Ada, and went at it, using a subset which was roughly equivalent to Pascal plus generic packages. Tasks were not used because of limitations in the DBMS we were interfacing to. We could certainly have used more of Ada, but given the time constraints and the existing design, it seemed sensible to stick to a limited subset. The system was the first ATCCIS demonstration facility, btw. -- Ole-Hj. Kristensen ****************************************************************************** * You cannot consistently believe this sentence. ******************************************************************************