Re: Improving Ada's image - Was: 7E7 Flight Controls Electronics

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> That is fine except that doesn't say that Ada
> couldn't improve upon this, were it put to the test.

You still don't understand. The common attitude around here
is that people who choose C and C++ are stupid, misguided,
and wrong. Look at the current thread on rewriting BIND in
Ada - someone asks why, and the response is that the original
is written in C, and isn't that enough of a reason?

But I have shown you systems written in C and C++ that are
responsible for billins in revenue, are used happily and
productively by millions of people, that are maintained by
widely distributed groups of programmers, and so forth. Why
would someone without an axe to grind accept the thesis that
there is something so intrinsically bad about those languages
that choosing them for a new project is absolutely wrong?

> What other choice do people have?  Do they get to
> choose between Ada and C based operating systems?

The fact that no such choices exist invite suspicion that the
other languages are unsuitable for creating them. That certainly
does not help your case. Try to imagine what your statements look
like to an outsider - you are claiming that this vaporware which
doesn't exist and probably never will would be much better than
existing systems that people are already happy with, if only
somebody would write it.

> You seem to be saying what we have now
> is good enough. Some of us, can't agree.

That's fine, but hectoring the rest of us about it isn't going to
help you.