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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,ce8628f8ec437d76 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Shark8 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada and Its Image Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:28:49 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <9a25329d-44a0-47e2-9aff-e30e239f9f0b@z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> References: <9121smFq4nU1@mid.individual.net> <87fwpgvwym.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.230.151.194 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1303172929 8980 127.0.0.1 (19 Apr 2011 00:28:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:28:49 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.230.151.194; posting-account=lJ3JNwoAAAAQfH3VV9vttJLkThaxtTfC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19850 Date: 2011-04-18T17:28:49-07:00 List-Id: On Apr 18, 2:29=A0am, Ludovic Brenta wrote: > George writes: > > Hi All, > > Ada is suitable to be used as a language for software design (http:// > > ) and small apps like life-science services running on smart phones > > requiring stability and correctness. > > On top of a fragile, bug-ridden smart phone operating system? Isn't that all the more reason to use a strongly-typed, high-integrity (lots of error checking) sort of language like Ada?