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: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-10 02:26:02 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!freenix!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!blackbush.xlink.net!uni-erlangen.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news.fh-hannover.de!news.cid.net!news.enyo.de!news1.enyo.de!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Date: 10 Jan 2001 11:26:09 +0100 Organization: Enyo's not your organization Message-ID: <87itnn7lfi.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3855 Date: 2001-01-10T11:26:09+01:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) writes: >>> Worse! Research firms like Gartner Group and its peers classify Ada as a >>> "mature" language "not recommended" for new projects. . . > > And how are the languages called which are recommended for new > > projects? "Evolving"? > > The proper terminology is: > > Immature That's a bit too negative, isn't it? "Evolving" sounds much nicer and full of possibilites (although it isn't fun to perpetually rewrite large parts of your code to follow language and compiler development.) BTW: Your newsreader is broken. It truncates the References: header was cut off after 511 characters.