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: 11232c,8a110400cf18f264 X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,12e84687980d42ab X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-04-28 19:16:14 PST Path: newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.stealth.net!news-east.rr.com!news.rr.com!chnws02.mediaone.net!chnws06.ne.mediaone.net!24.128.8.202!typhoon.ne.mediaone.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Subject: Re: "Ada 95 is certainly aimed at serious software engineering." in article. From: Ed Falis Organization: Ada Core Technologies Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Message-ID: References: <9cchj2011md@drn.newsguy.com> <200104282347.QAA24952@well.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Pineapple News 0.8.12 [SKYLAB BETA], BeOS (Intel) 5.0.3 X-Program-URL: http://www.concentric.net/~brunsona/pineapplenews.html Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 02:15:57 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.31.217.141 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mediaone.net X-Trace: typhoon.ne.mediaone.net 988510557 66.31.217.141 (Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:15:57 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 22:15:57 EDT Xref: newsfeed.google.com comp.lang.ada:7029 misc.misc:2653 Date: 2001-04-29T02:15:57+00:00 List-Id: Kent Paul Dolan wrote: > C++ is no good, Eiffel is great. > > The rest was just noise, conclusions without evidence. > > It was certainly kind of the author to mention > Ada, but to me that mention was more a dismissal, > and "oh, sure, Ada is _aimed_ at serious software > engineering, now moving right along to something > important", not a recommendation. Actually, the reason he didn't include Ada in the book "Objects Unencapsulated", which the extract was from (or from its precursor article), was that he didn't know Ada well enough to feel he could comment intelligently on it. The book also looks at Java alongside Eiffel and C++. It's a bit polemical, but an interesting read nonetheless. - Ed