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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-15 10:06:46 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!rutgers!sgigate.sgi.com!enews.sgi.com!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!swiss.ans.net!cmcl2!jpmorgan.com!jpmorgan.com!usenet From: jgoodsen@treasure.radsoft.com (John Goodsen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 15 Dec 1994 18:06:46 GMT Organization: The Dalmatian Group, Inc. Message-ID: References: <1994Dec2.225748.1065@isis.muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: treasure.ny.jpmorgan.com In-reply-to: ark@research.att.com's message of Sun, 11 Dec 1994 17:43:27 GMT Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:17548 comp.lang.c:72359 comp.programming:13517 comp.lang.c++:83024 comp.object:18709 Date: 1994-12-15T18:06:46+00:00 List-Id: In article ark@research.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes: In article darcy@druid.com (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) writes: > 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!" But I know how to do that for any language. Where does that leave you? --Andrew Koenig ark@research.att.com Out of touch with the real software development community. This is an example of the type of mindset that a lot of engineers (not all, though) who use Ada and then start touting the age old, boring, "my language is better than yours" crap. IMOE, of course. :-) -- -- John Goodsen Currently on-site at: The Dalmatian Group JP Morgan User Interface Specialists 60 Wall St., New York City jgoodsen@radsoft.com jgoodsen@jpmorgan.com