Re: Comment on Ada usage

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Well, he did say a nice (if inaccurate) thing about Ada - that he thought
all compilers should have the kind of validation Ada has. His observation is
that Ada compilers don't have bugs as a result - something that demonstrates
he's never used an Ada compiler seriously! It might be accurate to say that
Ada compilers have substantially fewer "bugs" and/or diversions from the
standard due to validation.

Still, the tone was definitely condescending to both of us Ada programmers.
:-) Of course, complaining about it isn't going to help - basically he's
right. There isn't much Ada use in embedded systems compared to C(++) and
the guys doing that work aren't terribly fond of Ada. The way to correct the
attitude he has is to correct the problem - make Ada more available and more
popular and then we don't have to whine when someone picks on our favorite
language.

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> That was a reader survey. In the article he comes right out and says this
isn't
> even close to scientific. He even points out some places where their
numbers are
> horribly at odds with more scientific polls.
>
> I'd be more interested in Jerry Petry's opinion of his charactarization of
Forth
> vs. Ada, as he's a fan of both languages (whereas this guy obviously
isn't).