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: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-18 03:55:24 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Message-ID: References: <5be89e2f.0107170838.c71ad61@posting.google.com> <5be89e2f.0107180235.726d46a8@posting.google.com> Organization: LJK Software Date: 18 Jul 2001 06:55:13 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 995453718 216.44.122.34 (Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:55:18 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 10:55:18 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10144 Date: 2001-07-18T06:55:13-05:00 List-Id: In article <5be89e2f.0107180235.726d46a8@posting.google.com>, codesavvy@aol.com (codesavvy) writes: > Just to be clear. I think Ada 95 is a fine programming language that > is suitable for many programming problems. It may even offer more > advantages than C++ but if it does the differences are not significant > in my mind. For a programming language to be considered vastly > superior (many Ada advocates do consider Ada to be vastly superior) I > believe that developers utilizing the language should show a > substantial increase in productivity or it should solve a class(es) of > programming problems that another language can't. And that is precisely the reason for many computer problems today. Your list (and I presume the lists of many others) does not even consider reliability of the finished software as a criterion. Yes, it is _possible_ to create reliable software with low-level languages. It is just less likely in practice.