From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing!
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:31:35 GMT
Date: 2008-03-09T22:31:35+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bzZAj.15684$TT4.10255@attbi_s22> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53e0fda7-a536-4899-a115-9d4e137ac698@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>
Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>
> You are right.
> In the same way, nobody every wrote a GUI program in Ada, nor a
> networking program, nobody did any cryptography in Ada, etc. These
> languages are almost completely useless nowadays, sigh.
> I accept this way of reasoning - but it does not change anything in
> the industry practice.
I've written a VGA driver/library from scratch entirely in Ada (for DOS) and
built graphical programs on top of it. I've written cryptographic code in Ada.
I've worked on projects that implemented networking in Ada. That's hardly
"nobody"; it's just a question of how much experience one has.
--
Jeff Carter
"Crucifixion's a doddle."
Monty Python's Life of Brian
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2008-03-08 6:04 Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! ME
2008-03-08 22:11 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 1:09 ` Christopher Henrich
2008-03-09 13:52 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 1:51 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-09 3:17 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-09 13:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 3:15 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-09 13:32 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 14:02 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-09 18:26 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-10 0:04 ` Ray Blaak
2008-03-10 7:49 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-10 16:48 ` Ray Blaak
2008-03-10 7:53 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-09 22:31 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2008-03-10 3:53 ` gpriv
2008-03-10 3:04 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over Larry Kilgallen
2008-03-10 9:23 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-10 19:01 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-10 22:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-11 0:48 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-11 7:12 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-11 8:59 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-11 9:49 ` GNAT bug, Assert_Failure at atree.adb:2893 Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-14 20:03 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over Ivan Levashew
2008-03-22 21:12 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-09 8:20 ` Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! Pascal Obry
2008-03-09 9:39 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-03-09 12:40 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-09 13:37 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-09 14:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-10 20:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-10 22:30 ` Niklas Holsti
2008-03-10 9:56 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-11 13:58 ` george.priv
2008-03-11 15:41 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-12 0:32 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 13:33 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-12 14:41 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 15:22 ` Vadim Godunko
2008-03-13 0:34 ` gpriv
2008-03-12 16:28 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-12 17:24 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-13 8:41 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 15:20 ` Samuel Tardieu
2008-03-12 23:54 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 9:40 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 10:49 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-03-13 13:03 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-13 14:02 ` gpriv
2008-03-14 1:12 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-14 10:16 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-13 11:42 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 16:10 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-13 16:16 ` gpriv
2008-03-13 22:01 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-13 22:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-14 2:07 ` gpriv
2008-03-14 9:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-14 21:54 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-15 2:29 ` gpriv
2008-03-15 13:29 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-15 16:09 ` gpriv
2008-03-11 22:09 ` gpriv
2008-03-09 13:50 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-09 14:54 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-10 21:24 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-11 10:12 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2008-03-22 22:43 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-26 13:49 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-26 21:27 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-27 9:31 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-27 23:10 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-28 9:51 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-28 18:12 ` Florian Weimer
2008-03-28 21:45 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-31 7:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-03-31 13:03 ` (see below)
2008-03-31 14:17 ` (see below)
2008-04-01 9:02 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-01 14:12 ` (see below)
2008-04-02 7:22 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-02 14:59 ` (see below)
2008-04-04 6:36 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-04 13:56 ` (see below)
2008-04-04 17:36 ` Georg Bauhaus
2008-04-04 17:40 ` (see below)
2008-04-15 12:05 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
2008-04-17 4:46 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-03-28 6:34 ` Randy Brukardt
2008-04-29 7:15 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-05-01 2:03 ` Steve Whalen
2008-03-14 19:20 ` Mike Silva
2008-03-14 20:43 ` Ed Falis
2008-03-22 22:51 ` Florian Weimer
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