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_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10dd18,6bad6e708776a9ad X-Google-Attributes: gid10dd18,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,6bad6e708776a9ad X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-07 09:44:11 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!63.208.208.143!feed2.onemain.com!feed1.onemain.com!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Hixson Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] pyAda, first public release Newsgroups: comp.lang.python,comp.lang.ada Followup-To: comp.lang.python References: <3A9DB9E1.8DD0E36D@bigfoot.de> Organization: Mandala Fluteworks User-Agent: KNode/0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-ID: Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 16:43:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 158.252.241.131 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 986661799 158.252.241.131 (Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:43:19 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 09:43:19 PDT Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.python:28727 comp.lang.ada:6617 Date: 2001-04-07T16:43:19+00:00 List-Id: Brad Clements wrote: > I thought one of the big points of using Ada was its verifiability -- > making it more suitable for complex, "large-scale" (i.e, expensive) > projects, like missile defense. >... > That sure is one of the big points. I never expect to use that feature though. To me the benefit is that some things are easier in Python and others are easier in Ada. Ada code runs a lot faster than Python code. And I truly dislike C's loose manner with type casts. (The pointers are also a real nuisance ... I prefer to use safe arrays. Etc.