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From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
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Subject: Re: how to analyze clock drift
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 02:34:41 +0100
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> And just to put this back into an Ada context

There is no doubt that Ada is cooler than C++ but Ada
is too cool, so people didn't master it in enough
numbers, instead C++ conquered not the world but
almost, at least in the 90s. Correct interpretation?

What I've learned is that Ada was developed by the US
military (the DoD) because all branches of the US
military were using different programming languages,
virtually reinventing the wheel all the time. This
time a"round", it wouldn't be that way so there was a
competition to get a better language so everyone would
do it once and in compatible ways. Only Ada was too
good so people didn't felt confident using it, so they
stuck to using their old-fashion languages where at
least they still felt like number one programming. Now
Ada can be found in real-time programming, trains and
other vehicles, and stuff like that.

The only Ada I did was what they told me to do at the
university. Lots of technologies I found by myself,
but I didn't find Ada, and actually I would be
surprised if I ever get to do it again.

Anyway, here is one thing we did. Probably very
schoolboyish to you professional Adaites (?)
["professional" as in either in your wallet or heart,
or both, optionally] but it can be interesting for you
to see how Ada looks in the university world to
students just doing a general computer education:

http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573/part4/

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