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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e516e.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/10 Message-ID: <8uh3ds$aai1@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 692601779 References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BC243.4A9CFC90@cadwin.com> <3A0C0BEE.347F659C@acm.org> <3A0C0E6C.C0218812@cadwin.com> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.3 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 10 Nov 2000 15:04:43 GMT, Nicolas Brunot wrote: >I would just add that fighting against that is not 'hard'. It simply makes your company disappear in short >time. >We would like to see more Ada users understand that. Any proof of that? I can't see Ada making that much difference. I seriously doubt it will make more than a 20% difference on time to market either way, which means at worst it will be a contributing factor to the failure. Anyway, looking at stuff like Abiword, if you want to write crossplatform, most of the code will be platform- independent, which means you're using a style of C ("portable C" + wrappers) that will probably mirrors what an Ada programmer will have to do. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http://dvdeug.dhis.org As centuries of pulp novels and late-night Christian broadcasting have taught us, anything we don't understand can be used for the purposes of Evil. -- Kenneth Hite, Suppressed Transmissions