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From: dmitry6243@my-deja.com
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Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do?
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 19:03:56 GMT
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In article <93f73f$mt1$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <93ekmo$a14$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
>   n_brunot@my-deja.com wrote:
> > Choose some Ada books and some Java ones.
> > Have them read by someone who is neither Ada or Java
> > fanatics. Ask him what he thinks, and not what you would like
> > to hear. The conclusion is straightforward.
>
> Well I do that all the time (remember I teach at NYU), so I
> am quite familiar with people's reactions to this task. of
> course it depends on the books, and part of the trouble with
> Java books is that they are weighed down by a ton of very
> disorganized libraries, so I am not sure that the observation
> (which is that people find the Ada books easier) is a fair one.

I think you are wrong here. It is not about how good Ada or Ada book
are. It is about whom you address it. I personally find Ada 95 Raionale
excellent. It was a delight to read it. Yet it will never be a
bestseller. Java and C++ books are awful, yet (therefore) they do their
work. For they do not teach, but PROMOTE. To make a language popular,
one need advertising. It must be as insolent as "Ada is an extension of
C++ especially designed for Windows", then it works.

> No one says that everyone should use Ada for everything.

But everybody is saying that C++ is for anything. There is no place for
correctness in market wars.

--
Regards,
Dmitry Kazakov


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