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: 103376,349657f8b72f2411 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Chris Morgan Subject: Re: Where's Ada95 when OO languages are discussed? Date: 1999/03/23 Message-ID: <87emmfpw3t.fsf@mihalis.ix.netcom.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 458181992 Sender: cm@mihalis.ix.netcom.com References: <7d8ik6$s6d$1@its.hooked.net> <36F7F02E.BC57F7CB@aasaa.ofe.org> Organization: Linux Hackers Unlimited X-NETCOM-Date: Tue Mar 23 6:28:23 PM CST 1999 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-23T18:28:23-06:00 List-Id: David Starner writes: > 1. Ada doesn't get much respect. By many people, it's considered a > overgrown monstrosity built by commitee. I also get the impression it's > not used for much mainstream stuff. Smalltalk has history, and C++, Java > and Eiffel are the new showoffs. When you talk abot history and showoffs, do you ever check your facts first? Ada's installed base is much larger than Eiffel and Ada certainly has history too (hint, C++ was designed with some nods towards Ada83). Finally, neither version was designed by committee. Chris -- Chris Morgan