Re: Ada The Best Language?

From: byhoe@greenlime.com (Adrian Hoe)
Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: 19 Jul 2001 21:00:40 -0700
Date: 2001-07-20T04:00:40+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9ff447f2.0107192000.1e134d05@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.995490202.14285.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org

There is no such thing as _best_ language because nothing is perfect
in the reality. Ada is also a programming language designed by apes.
The only difference is that Ada is designed by a group of apes. My
company uses Ada and mandates the use of Ada not because it is simply
labelled "The Best", but according to the real fact that Ada fits into
our business model, our future vision and the confidence Ada has given
us. We had extensive research, testing, evaluation before we jumped
into Ada wagon.

I don't see Ada as "The Best" neither do the rest of my colleagues but
we know that Ada is best for our job. Although my company mandates the
use of Ada, we are still free to use other languages like C if only
one can provide hard evidence that C is better than Ada in that
particular scope of project. Ada is still top in our priority.

Adrian Hoe
Just my 2 cents, not my employer's.

"David C. Hoos" <david.c.hoos.sr@ada95.com> wrote in message news:<mailman.995490202.14285.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>...
> You might want to take a look at this item:
> http://greenlime.com/Ada-Malaysia/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "codesavvy" <codesavvy@aol.com>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
> To: <comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
> 
> 
> > Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com> wrote in message
>  news:<3B55C6B0.C2ED36@san.rr.com>...
> > > codesavvy wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I don't care if you think I'm trolling, I'm not.  I think the answer
> > > > is rather obvious, Ada has nothing to offer that is substantially
> > > > better than what C++ offers.
> > >
> > > Does C++ offer built in and portable multitasking, protected objects,
> > > real-time performance, built-in portable interrupt interfacing,
> > > distributed programming?
> >
> > No but do you have any data that measures how much more productive an
> > Ada developer is using these features?  BTW I like these features in
> > Ada 95 a lot.  I doubt, however, that producitivity is increased
> > significantly by having them available.
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