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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 19:11:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!news.mailgate.org!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!hse-mtl-ppp75387.qc.sympatico.CA!not-for-mail From: Christopher Browne Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? Date: 8 Sep 2003 02:11:50 GMT Organization: cbbrowne Computing Inc Message-ID: References: <7KP6b.3609$1%2.67378@newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hse-mtl-ppp75387.qc.sympatico.ca (64.229.212.148) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1062987110 20174837 64.229.212.148 (16 [125932]) X-Draft-From: ("nntp+wolfe:comp.lang.ada" 218) X-message-flag: Outlook is rather hackable, isn't it? X-Home-Page: http://www.cbbrowne.com/info/ X-Affero: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=cbbrowne Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42256 Date: 2003-09-08T02:11:50+00:00 List-Id: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, chris wrote: > Christopher Browne wrote: >> That's a far cry from either: >> - MONO being a total replacement for .NET; >> - C# becoming a popular software implementation language on Linux >> or *BSD. > That's a shame. As much as I dislike the evil empire, .Net helps > solve a difficult problem and it is *not* migration to 64 bit. It > allows sw written in different languages to combine effectively. > That opens up a lot of code to languages. Ada suffers from a lack > of libraries for many things, and it is not alone. .Net offers an > abundance of such things. The attendant problem is that what .NET /really/ is (primarily) is a wannabe alternative to J2EE. The fact of it supporting languages aside from C# and Visual BASIC is NOT likely high on the list of reasons for it being built the way it was. > That is what's good about .Net! The bad part is it seems M$ are > intent on vendor lock in and .Net is the vehicle through which they > seek to attain it! For sure. > I think Ada 95 would be an excellent tool for an OS and wanted to do > one in it, still do infact, but an OS is not a trivial application. Indeed. >> - That vital libraries were being implemented in [something other >> than C]. >> "Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not >> an app programming language." -- Owen Taylor (GTK+ and ORBit >> developer) > > I disagree with that... just don't use C! :) > > Seriously, it has some merit but I'd rather not if given the choice. I try to avoid it for the most part; the pains of fighting with memory allocation being the most notable bit... -- "cbbrowne","@","cbbrowne.com" http://cbbrowne.com/info/emacs.html He who laughs last thinks slowest.