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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial
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Thomas Løcke writes on comp.lang.ada:
> Ada might be an awesome language, but what does that help if the
> compilers aren't working as advertized?
>
> I'm honestly feeling a bit depressed after reading your post Maciej,
> and to make matters worse, it just started raining and I have to spend
> the entire day hacking PHP. On the other hand I'm also energized by
> the fact that there are skilled people like you in the Ada community -
> people that push the envelope.

Things are not as bleak as Maciej makes them seem; by his own admission,
most of the bugs he encountered were with interfaces.  The system I work
on consists of 1.5 million lines of Ada and has been in existence for
almost 20 years.  I would not say we spend 50% of our time reporting and
working around compiler bugs; the real figure is probably 1% for us,
below noise level.  That's probably because we don't use interfaces :)

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.