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,e0e1d3b3f7c994b8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.glorb.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Robert Dewar's great article about the Strengths of Ada over other langauges in multiprocessing! References: <13t4b2kkjem20f3@corp.supernews.com> <89af8399-94fb-42b3-909d-edf3c98d32e5@n75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com> <53e0fda7-a536-4899-a115-9d4e137ac698@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <53e0fda7-a536-4899-a115-9d4e137ac698@13g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> 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_s22 1205101895 12.201.97.213 (Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:31:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:31:35 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:31:35 GMT Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20264 Date: 2008-03-09T22:31:35+00:00 List-Id: 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 82