Re: Ada's (in)visibility in the engineering community

[van-bc!cs.ubc.ca!utcsri!neat.cs.toronto.edu!tlai@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (To ny Wen Hsun Lai)]

In article <1992Oct5.195015.128@fcom.cc.utah.edu> val@news.ccutah.edu (Val Kart
chner) writes:
>sakkinen@jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen) writes:
>: Please, tell us even _one_ real-time feature of C !
>
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>To answer this question, we must first understand what is meant by "real-time"
>as used in the English language.
>
[Definitions of "real-time" in American Heritage Dictionary, Webster's II
 Riverside Dictionary, and Collins English Dictionary" deleted]
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>However, contrary to common English usage, the same report says that Ada has
>a better real-time score.  This apparent contradiction can most easily be
>resolved by concluding that Ada has a definition for "real-time" which differs
>from common English usage.

Do you also rely on English dictionaries and "common English usage" for the
meanings of "object-oriented", "inheritance", and "dynamic binding"?

[lots of stuff deleted on the widespread use of C]
>We can all point to instances of inferior products being commercial successes
>and superior products dying....
>While commercial success does not always follow technical
>superiority, there is a high degree of correlation.  But remember, commercial
>success does follow the principle on which the United States of America was
>founded on: freedom of choice.

Long live COBOL and FORTRAN.  :)