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_50,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-13 06:37:52 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!EU.net!sun4nl!mscnoff!mather From: mather@mscn.nl (Ross Mather) Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Message-ID: Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 10:44:53 GMT References: <1994Nov29.154220.27952@cognos.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Xref: bga.com comp.lang.ada:8565 comp.lang.c:34479 comp.programming:5807 comp.lang.c++:40769 comp.object:9772 Date: 1994-12-13T10:44:53+00:00 List-Id: Con Bradley (ceb@spitfire.pact.srf.ac.uk) wrote: : D'Arcy J.M. Cain (darcy@druid.com) wrote: : :Mike Chapman (Mike.Chapman@muc.de) wrote: : :: Two days later you would not understand it any more. : :I have always said that I won't use a language of which the proponents put : :code in front of each other and say "Bet you can't guess what this does!" : There are competitions for the Worst Book of the year, the Worst Movie : (film) of the year etc. and it doesn't prevent you reading a book nor going : to the movies(films). I think it's all part of a healthy language culture, But we don't have competitions for who can build the worst bridge / worst building / worst anything else that is meant to be *engineered*. Computer programming languages are Engineering Tools designed to let engineers do their jobs. Yeah sure we have to be a bit artistic now and then, but that doesn't equate programming with filmmaking. cheers Ross -- Ross M. Mather mather@mscn.nl, rmt@dasc.nl I speak for me, and me alone. Canter & Siegel please take note. Rugby isn't a way of life, it's more important than that.