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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a9b49a9162025eb X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-04 08:54:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: kcline17@hotmail.com (Kevin Cline) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Bye-bye Ada ? Date: 4 Feb 2003 08:54:45 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: References: <3E3B7BB5.A1A070@adaworks.com> <3NY_9.9226$x63.6255@nwrddc01.gnilink.net> <3E3EA605.60705@cogeco.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.76.54.20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1044377685 30166 127.0.0.1 (4 Feb 2003 16:54:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 4 Feb 2003 16:54:45 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:33785 Date: 2003-02-04T16:54:45+00:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:<3E3EA605.60705@cogeco.ca>... > Hyman Rosen wrote: > > Richard Riehle wrote: > > > >> I realize the Mr. H. Rosen will disagree with this viewpoint. > > > > > > On this day, I find it hard to summon much energy for a language war. > > I know *I* can write reasonably good software in C++. When we have > > errors, it's due to problems in logic, not problems in the language. > > But anyway, fine. Don't program in C++, do what you want. > > I should resist the temptation but... the same argument can be > made for perl, FORTRAN and assembly language programming ;-) When you want a program finished today you can't do much better than Perl. I don't have much sympathy for the OP's position on programming languages. This month I had to learn Visual Basic.