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-Thread: a07f3367d7,3e070dca458e63a6 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Received: by 10.224.189.78 with SMTP id dd14mr5423697qab.0.1358521691757; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:08:11 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.182.15.40 with SMTP id u8mr294563obc.25.1358521691674; Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:08:11 -0800 (PST) Path: k2ni675qap.0!nntp.google.com!p13no1251789qai.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:08:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.53.16.242; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.53.16.242 References: User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <90d941f8-4e9f-485d-b2f6-89627d69ac79@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: More Ganssle on Ada From: Patrick Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:08:11 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2013-01-18T07:08:11-08:00 List-Id: I am happy to hear there is an ARM port coming, although who knows if it wi= ll still cost 20K... The answers in this article were pretty wacked and disheartening. I really = hate C but that does not mean people are not writing terrific code with it.= Slamming it because it's old is just stupid. Ada is about 30 years old now= , so people could say the same thing about it. The "recommended" languages = mentioned are themselves written in C. Another thing that has been touched on... is Ada only for life critical app= lications? Adacore seems to think so. Why NOT build a telephone application= in Ada. I am learning Ada because it's a feature rich, sensible language n= ot because I am worried about killing people by accident. Adacore has to chaise profits, I don't blame them for being slow to support= certain hardware targets and such but they should represent the language b= etter. If people believe this crap there will be a whole subset of tinkers = and novice programmers that will pass over the language and when their drea= ms reach fruition their projects will not be using Ada, even though it may = have been the best tool for the job