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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fdb77,5f529c91be2ac930 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,59ec73856b699922 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-25 10:22:26 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.object,comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died) Date: 25 Apr 2003 10:22:26 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <9fa75d42.0304250922.50104e0b@posting.google.com> References: <9fa75d42.0304230424.10612b1a@posting.google.com> <9fa75d42.0304240446.493ca906@posting.google.com> <3EA7E0E3.8020407@crs4.it> <9fa75d42.0304240950.45114a39@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 32.97.239.26 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1051291346 30581 127.0.0.1 (25 Apr 2003 17:22:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Apr 2003 17:22:26 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.java.advocacy:62666 comp.object:61980 comp.lang.ada:36555 misc.misc:13687 Date: 2003-04-25T17:22:26+00:00 List-Id: Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) wrote in message news:... > In article <9fa75d42.0304240950.45114a39@posting.google.com>, softeng3456@netscape.net (soft-eng) writes: > > Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote in message news:<3EA7E0E3.8020407@crs4.it>... > >> [ FUT comp.lang.ada ] > >> > >> soft-eng wrote: > >> > >> > But if you > >> > had to develop device drivers for a living, and if > >> > the language was truly your choice, would you chose Ada as > >> > the language? > >> > >> Yes. > >> > > > > Hmmm. Very interesting. > > > > But I am sure you folks couldn't come up with some similar > > pronouncements for AI as well. How many people out there who have > > years and years of Artificial Intelligence experience and > > who really think Ada is the best language for this purpose? > > Hopefully there is nobody who thinks that Ada is automatically the > best language for _everything_. But to find people doing AI in Ada > (if any) please post directly to comp.lang.ada, without the crossposts. I wasn't really trying to find anybody doing AI in Ada, just trying to find exactly how degenerate the arguments can get :-)