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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s71.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <20070123211651.c0d43695.tero.koskinen@iki.fi> <87zm89tpk7.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4q4pqgmdwo.fsf@hod.lan.m-e-leypold.de> <1169719988.972296.121430@a75g2000cwd.googlegroups.com> <4iauh.1157694$084.1040745@attbi_s22> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s71 1169785400 12.201.97.213 (Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:23:20 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:23:20 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:23:20 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8582 Date: 2007-01-26T04:23:20+00:00 List-Id: Markus E Leypold wrote: > > Not to promote C, but purely from a logical perspective: The > "continuing creation of buffer-overflow errors in C" only shows that > there exist programmers/humans that don't always create safe programs > in C. Don't you get logical on me here. I maintain that it is impossible for humans to write safe C. For proof by blatant assertion, see my previous post. > I'd like just to point out that the world even in this respect is > neither black and white (or at least you haven't demonstrated that > convincingly yet), but more shades of gray. I concede the gray might > be lighter in Ada sector and darker in the C sector, but I'd prefer > quantitative arguments / reasoning in this world and some effort to > estimate the difference between those shades over striking but > logically flawed reasoning. I want absolutes I'll turn to religion. :-). All together now: Put your hands on the monitor. Say, "I believe in Ada!" -- Jeff Carter "From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish." Bananas 28