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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID, SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fdb77,4873305131bf4d94 X-Google-Attributes: gidfdb77,public From: Steve Ropa Subject: Re: ADA SUCKS, C/C++/JAVA RULES!!!! Date: 1997/10/28 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 285609006 References: <34557f2b.1934172@news.mindspring.com> <635csg$2eu$1@news2.alpha.net> Organization: Dimensional Communications Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java.advocacy Date: 1997-10-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Kenneth W. Sodemann wrote: > > 4.) Many of the Ada projects that I have worked on would have been much > more difficult, or down right impossible, to manage in C or C++ (I have not > done large scale development (or even testing) of anything written in Java, > so I cannot comment on that). Add to that the fact that for certain types > of projects, you also get a lower cost of development and (especially) > maintenance, a tendency for less bugs, etc. > > Of course, if you are mostly writing Windows apps, then VC++ is a lot better > environment than _anything_ you are going to get for Ada (at least at this > time). Then again, we are coming back to "use the right tool for the right > job", and right now, VC++ or VB (or maybe even Java) is often the right tool > for that job (though Ada is making some in roads there, but the tools are > not quite on par with VC++ yet (IMHO)). > I hate to keep a thread going that started with such an inane comment(see subject) but *your* points were very well articulated, and lead me to a question. As you said, it all boils down to the right tool for the right job. What types of jobs are Ada best suited for? I got into development through self learning, so I never really had the benefit of experiencing a lot of different languages. Thanks Steve