Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over

["Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>]

Maciej Sobczak wrote:
> 
> Those who use Ada and any external library that they did not write
> themselves are not writing in Ada.

Correct. They are writing in Ada plus the library. This is not a problem when 
the library is portable.

> Not counting those who target the hardware directly, every programmer
> uses some services offered by the operating system. Even things such
> obvious as file operations use system services. By your logic, using
> files is not writing in Ada, because the related system services are
> not written by those who use them. GUI? Not Ada. Network? Not Ada. By
> your logic almost every application I can think of is not Ada.

You are apparently not very good at logic. File operations are part of the 
language, so obviously they are Ada.

As for the others, you've already been given examples that were written in Ada, 
but you choose to ignore inconvenient facts.

> No matter how much you hate this idea, I can write multithreaded
> software in C++.

No matter how much you hate the idea, you can but you don't.

> Yes. That's why some use C++. Or Ada.

Those who use C++ by choice have already demonstrated that they want to waste 
their time.

-- 
Jeff Carter
"I spun around, and there I was, face to face with a
six-year-old kid. Well, I just threw my guns down and
walked away. Little bastard shot me in the ass."
Blazing Saddles
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