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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/31 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 171541444 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <4tk93t$o7a@Masala.CC.UH.EDU> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <01bb7e29$61e3d260$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> "Tim Behrendsen" writes: > Unfortunately, it's difficult to discuss comparative language > issues without needing to intersperse "This is not a bait!" > between each sentence. I started the thread admitting that > I know nothing, and at least trying to assure people that I was I think part of the problem here is that despite some of your comments to the contrary, you really do seem set in your ways. Old dog new trick problems and all that. So, it is not much use responding to most of what you have to say. Still, this one point: > sincerely interested in discussing why C has become extremely > popular, but Ada seems mired in more the "big iron" worlds. is really odd. I'm not sure there even is any Ada in the "big iron" worlds. That is the land of COBOL and more recently some success with Smalltalk. I have never used Ada on "big iron" and have used it on and for several years. In the last year or so, we have gone completely over to use of Ada95 pretty much exclusively. Our platforms are various UNI* and Win* stuff. It is worth noting that the Ada95 on Win* is either free (GNAT with self extracting installer and all) or cheap (ObjectAda from Tomson offering a full Win* environment). The problem here isn't so much that you don't have a clue (as you admit) but rather that you don't appear to want one. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com