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: 103376,447bd1cf7a88c198 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-01-09 06:53:04 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!newsfeed.mesh.ad.jp!sjc-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!iad-read.news.verio.net.POSTED!kilgallen From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Do we need "Mission-Critical" software? Was: What to Do? Message-ID: References: <3A4F5A4A.9ABA2C4F@chicagonet.net> <3A4F759E.A7D63F3F@netwood.net> <3A50ABDF.3A8F6C0D@acm.org> <92qdnn$jfg$1@news.huji.ac.il> <3A50C371.8B7B871@home.com> <3A51EC04.91353CE7@uol.com.br> <3A529C97.2CA4777F@home.com> <3A53CB9E.EA7CF86C@uol.com.br> <3A5466DE.811D43A5@acm.org> <932aol$ikc$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <932mi6$r2k$1@trog.dera.gov.uk> <9343b1$3g5$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <934iuf$eqv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <937kc7$ssq$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <93c0e9$4u6$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A5A5Organization: LJK Software Date: 9 Jan 2001 09:52:56 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 216.44.122.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@verio.net X-Trace: iad-read.news.verio.net 979051980 216.44.122.34 (Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:53:00 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:53:00 GMT Organization: Verio Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:3816 Date: 2001-01-09T09:52:56-05:00 List-Id: In article <87y9wl3yyh.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer writes: > Cesar Scarpini Rabak writes: > >> Worse! Research firms like Gartner Group and its peers classify Ada as a >> "mature" language "not recommended" for new projects. . . > > And how are the languages called which are recommended for new > projects? "Evolving"? The proper terminology is: Immature Certainly the people who decide that "mature" is "bad" are not required to bring software development projects in on time. Other terms might be: Unproven Not yet stable Experimental