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,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2000-11-11 22:54:30 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!cyclone-sjo1.usenetserver.com!news-out.usenetserver.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!sjc-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? In-Reply-To: <8ujph7$4ba$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Message-ID: References: <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BB50B.96F77015@cadwin.com> <3A0BEAC7.5BC70E0@cadwin.com> <3A0BFA4A.5FA9D365@erols.com> <3A0C03BE.C3216454@cadwin.com> <3A0C0C98.EB19F7E8@cadwin.com> <8ujph7$4ba$1@nnrp1.deja.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:54:36 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.184.139.136 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: sjc-read.news.verio.net 974012076 206.184.139.136 (Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:54:36 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 06:54:36 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:2040 Date: 2000-11-12T06:54:36+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Robert Dewar wrote: > So "good" has to be qualified by requirements. Ada obviously > has its greatest strengths where high realibility IS a > requirement. There is nothing wrong in Nicolas attempt to > duplicate Microsoft's success in the world of relatively > low reliability requirements, where (at least in Microsofts > case) having thousands of known problems does not inhibit you > from releasing software, but I don't think this is where Ada > can make its biggest strides. Perhaps, but IMO Ada is no more difficult to use than C or C++ (quite the opposite in my case) even when adopting a slapdash "hack until it works" non-methodology. I've found that even if I do that I can lazily rely on Ada's rigorous type checking to get working code more quickly. So I wouldn't be so quick to disregard the more mundane world of "lower" reliability development. Indeed, it may be a selling point that if your developers are using Ada they get a bit more reliability for free. -- Brian