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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!v37g2000vbv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Martin Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 00:55:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <0e88de66-128c-48fd-9b9f-fdb4357f318a@z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> <22aKn.4575$Z6.3399@edtnps82> NNTP-Posting-Host: 20.133.0.8 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1274687737 9465 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2010 07:55:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 07:55:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v37g2000vbv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=20.133.0.8; posting-account=g4n69woAAACHKbpceNrvOhHWViIbdQ9G User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100513 Firefox/3.6.4,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11912 Date: 2010-05-24T00:55:37-07:00 List-Id: On May 23, 7:32=A0pm, "(see below)" wrote: > On 23/05/2010 14:26, in article 22aKn.4575$Z6.3399@edtnps82, "Duke > > Normandin" wrote: > > On 2010-05-23, Yannick Duch=EAne wrote: > >> Le Fri, 21 May 2010 00:58:26 +0200, Duke Normandin a > >> =E9crit: > >>> Ada continues to attract me; but so does Miranda ( and Giselle and So= phie > >>> ...) =A0;) > >> These are two very different paths. Miranda would be more close to wha= t > >> are ?domain specific languages?... well, not exactly, but close. > > > Domain-specific? How so? Because it's a functional language, and theref= ore > > only good for ..... > > Not much at all. > > -- > Bill Findlay > chez blueyonder.co.uk Hi Bill, Why do you say that?... One of my favourite static analysis tools is written in ML...it's definitely useful! -- Martin