Re: Joint Strike Fighter

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

Oh, it always is. To be fair, once you get reasonably sophisticated with
Ada, you can find yourself frustrated by the details. For example, when you
start getting into the complexities of generic instantiation, inheritance,
etc., you discover that sometimes what you want to do and what seems
reasonable to do is in fact impossible to do. So even Ada has "warts", if
you will,  that can only be discovered by becoming quite familiar with it.

OTOH, at least I've not run into features of Ada that cause serious flaws in
the resulting system just by their mere existence and use. Typically, the
compiler catches the common errors and won't let you do something that is
too inherently risky or error prone. I understand the view that C++ is its
own virus.

MDC
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"Richard Riehle" <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
news:3BE4221B.34589071@adaworks.com...
>
> Ahhhh, but "the devil is in the details."    The more preceptive among
them
> eventually discover that whoever said, "C++ is its own virus" was on to
> something.  Unfortunately, once they have committed to a particular
> course of action, they are stuck with it.   It is too late for "buyer's
remorse"
>