From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: A Poor Man's Ada Library
Date: 12 Mar 90 13:04:06 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DJ62X=4ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 19452@grebyn.com
Thank you for an informative article, but don't you think it would have been
better to redirect followups to the groups in which a discussion of Ada might
be appropriate, rather than the one group for which it clearly isn't? The
Ada versus C war was amusing in it's time, but that time is now long past.
In an attempt to provide a little information, now, here's a couple of quotes
from Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, whose Turing Award speech was directed
at the Ada language:
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is
to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and
the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies."
- C. A. R. Hoare
"Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used
in applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear
power stations, cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-
ballistic missle defense systems. The next rocket to go astray
as a result of a programming language error may not be an
exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus: It may be a
nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable
programming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a
far greater risk to our environment and to our society than
unsafe cars, toxic pesticides, or accidents at nuclear power
stations."
- C. A. R. Hoare
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1990-03-12 2:14 A Poor Man's Ada Library Ted Holden
1990-03-12 5:08 ` Ada William Thomas Wolfe, 2847
1990-03-14 17:17 ` Which language is the best (was Re: Ada) Don Allingham
1990-03-15 20:32 ` Ada William B. Tyler
1990-03-16 14:08 ` Ada Dennis M. O'Connor
1990-03-12 13:04 ` Peter da Silva [this message]
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