Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?

[Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>]

On May 24, 1:05 pm, "(see below)" <yaldni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> On 24/05/2010 08:55, in article
> c7fcdde0-6644-4202-803a-42efff00c...@v37g2000vbv.googlegroups.com, "Martin"
>
>
>
> <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
> > On May 23, 7:32 pm, "(see below)" <yaldni...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> >> On 23/05/2010 14:26, in article 22aKn.4575$Z6.3399@edtnps82, "Duke
>
> >> Normandin" <dukeofp...@ml1.net> wrote:
> >>> On 2010-05-23, Yannick Duchêne <yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >>>> Le Fri, 21 May 2010 00:58:26 +0200, Duke Normandin <dukeofp...@ml1.net> a
> >>>> écrit:
> >>>>> Ada continues to attract me; but so does Miranda ( and Giselle and Sophie
> >>>>> ...)  ;)
> >>>> These are two very different paths. Miranda would be more close to what
> >>>> are ?domain specific languages?... well, not exactly, but close.
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> >>> Domain-specific? How so? Because it's a functional language, and therefore
> >>> only good for .....
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> >> Not much at all.
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> >> --
> >> Bill Findlay
> >> <surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk
>
> > Hi Bill,
>
> > Why do you say that?... One of my favourite static analysis tools is
> > written in ML...it's definitely useful!
>
> Note that I did not say "good for nothing". 8-)
> --
> Bill Findlay
> <surname><forename> chez blueyonder.co.uk

I took "Not much at all" to "tend toward" nothing! :-)

I rather like functional languages - you have to rotate you mind
through 90 degrees to use them if you're used to procedural languages
but once you can think in that way, it seems very elegant and natural
to me.

-- Martin