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: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-18 02:42:07 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Message-ID: <8j7S+hhKZP2d@eisner.encompasserve.org> References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <9j2qqb$qlu$1@news.tpi.pl> Organization: LJK Software Date: 18 Jul 2001 05:42:01 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 995449324 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:42:04 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:42:04 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10137 Date: 2001-07-18T05:42:01-05:00 List-Id: In article <9j2qqb$qlu$1@news.tpi.pl>, taw@pb220.legnica.sdi.tpnet.pl (Tomasz Wegrzanowski) writes: > In article <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com>, codesavvy wrote: >> How come it is not more widely accepted? The stuff I read here states >> that it is because the rest of the world is stupid. From what I can >> tell there is plenty of crappy code written in Ada. I think many who >> share the view that Ada is the best programming language offering >> significant advantages over other programming language might want to >> re-think their positions. > > Well, this is a good question that I can't asnwer to. > > What are absolute positives and negatives of Ada ? > Only practical ones of course, no "elegance" or "purity" ones, > and no military/embeded-only ones, please. Please read http://www.adapower.com/ since the rest of us have been through this before.