Re: Very strange C++ ad from DDC-I

[ddciiny!jls@uunet.uu.net (Jonathan Schilling)]

In article <CB4y4q.C86@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
 writes:
>
>  [...]                         The August 1993 issue of Embedded Systems
>Programming, page 24, has an ad from DDC-I that is so strange from an Ada
>point of view that I am rendered speechless.
>
   [shocking ad deleted]	
>
>    Now when I first saw the header to the ad, I initially thought, great
>another ad from an Ada company saying all the things about C++ that they
>claim for Ada.  More hypocrisy.  And that why couldn't DDC-I advertise
>an Ada executive and convince people to do this stuff in Ada, instead of
>C++.  In short, much of what Ada stands for is contradicted in this ad,
>an ad from an Ada company, a contradiction which further confuses people
>considering a new language.

Just for the record, DDC-I *has* placed Ada-only ads in "Embedded
Systems Programming", e.g. February 1991 page 11, August 1991 page 74. 

>    And I said to myself, at least they didn't actually mention Ada.  
>That is, until I read the text of the ad and saw that they mentioned Ada.
>Why brag about being a global leader in compiler technology for the 
>"best" object-oriented, multitasking language aroung, Ada, if you are
>delivering a product in C++?  This is a very confusing message to send
>to people.

Are you confused when General Motors runs an ad that mentions several
types of car?  Does the Sun Express catalog confuse you, because it
has entries for SunPro's compilers for Fortran, Pascal, C, C++, and Ada?
Surely Sun must think one of those languages is the "best"!

DDC-I thinks that Ada is a great language.  There's no such thing as
a "best" language, even if you narrow the domain down to the kinds of
applications that you think Ada and C++ are battling over.  There is
room for both languages, and if a language vendor wants to be in both
businesses, it doesn't mean they're downgrading the business that they
were in first.

-- 
Jonathan Schilling
DDC-I, Inc.
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