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: 103376,382fcf8feeefdd50 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: christoph.grein@eurocopter.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: computer language used to program Mars Lander Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:21:40 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <185ee7f9-9d4f-4f49-8dbe-6b623b8a8223@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.156.44.178 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1216185701 11731 127.0.0.1 (16 Jul 2008 05:21:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:21:41 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c65g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=80.156.44.178; posting-account=rmHyLAoAAADSQmMWJF0a_815Fdd96RDf User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 webwasher (Webwasher 6.7.0.3295) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1165 Date: 2008-07-15T22:21:40-07:00 List-Id: On 16 Jul., 01:35, "Phaedrus" wrote: > Sadly, these blunders and others don't get remembered as "how NOT to mana= ge > a software project", they get filed under "Ada sucks". =A0 We need to con= vince > them to give her another chance. I remember a guy appearing at Ada Europe conference in Toulouse speaking about a project they started in Ada. They had no clear idea what to do, didn't really know the language, had no strategy, they really muddled along - and of course failed miserably. Then he continued with saying, OK, we redid the project now that we knew what and how to do, and we used C and it was a success. We will never again use Ada. (A fool with a good tool is still a fool.)