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 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!bernina!bernina!neeri From: neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A Pascal Subset of Ada (was: Why Ada is Failing Socially) Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 09:53:39 GMT References: <1991Jun25.022849.18078@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov> <1991Jun25.201958.13285@netcom.COM> <3377@sparko.gwu.edu> <1991Jun27.074515.9755@netcom.COM> <1991Jun27.235212.21155@netcom.COM> Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System) Distribution: comp.lang.ada Organization: Integrated Systems Laboratory, ETH, Zurich In-Reply-To: jls@netcom.COM's message of 27 Jun 91 23:52:12 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: etzj-gw List-Id: In article <1991Jun27.235212.21155@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: >neeri@iis.ethz.ch (Matthias Ulrich Neeracher) writes: > >>In article <1991Jun27.074515.9755@netcom.COM> jls@netcom.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: >>>Modula-2 was an interesting way-station on the road to software engineering >>>languages, but not an end in itself. > >>I wish a similiar conclusion would arise from the Ada experience. > >Perhaps it will--as soon as something better comes along. What do you suggest? [Sorry for wasting the bandwidth of this group for discussion on other languages] I don't think there is currently a language that handles everything Ada does as well. On the other hand, I believe there are several languages (Eiffel for instance) that handle certain aspects of Ada better. There are also some languages that can't be matched by Ada for special tasks. I don't hope there's anyone who would use Ada for typical tasks suited for Scheme, Prolog, ML, or PostScript (would you rather use Ada as a page description language ?-). I'm quite sure that by the year 2000, a language will exist that is simply better than Ada. But in the meantime, it seems reasonable to use the best that is available :-) But what I'm afraid of is that Ada will stay around long after it is found to be inadequate, that it will become the FORTRAN of the 3rd millenium. Matthias ----- Matthias Neeracher neeri@iis.ethz.ch "These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness." -- William Gibson, _Johnny Mnemonic_