From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 8 Jun 93 04:08:52 GMT From: world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: How to Make Ada more widely used? Message-ID: List-Id: >I don't intend to slam C, but there ARE portability problems with >that language that are much reduced in Ada, due to the compiler >verification process and the emphasis on standard development. >Much of that process and emphasis derives from the Mandate. Of course, thanks to the Mandate, there are virtually no Ada support libraries for most applications domains, while despite the problems of C, there are hundreds of commercial and thousands of public domain support libraries in C. Thus for a few things, Ada programmers do quite well, while for most other applications, Ada programmers can't do anything at all. The Mandate has allow the destruction of a commercial Ada business, which despite DoD denials, hurts DoD software development and drives up costs. Greg -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178