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-Thread: a07f3367d7,b3e019af04ffa4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Gautier write-only Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: A persistent Ada rumor (just to play the fool) Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 04:09:12 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <141823e0-535d-4468-95b1-d826f7efb115@n7g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.122.158.4 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1265112552 3392 127.0.0.1 (2 Feb 2010 12:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: r24g2000yqd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.122.158.4; posting-account=gRqrnQkAAAAC_02ynnhqGk1VRQlve6ZG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.0.249.78 Safari/532.5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:8857 Date: 2010-02-02T04:09:12-08:00 List-Id: On 28 Jan., 20:32, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne) wrote: > A persistent Ada rumor which was at least still there at the year of > 2004 (I'm quoting) : > > > I've also heard rumor that Ada is so complex that no > > single programmer fully understands it, and so the military > > uses it, but that smacks of Urban Legend to me... > > It's in the middle of this place :http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Per= l/comp.lang.perl.misc/2004-11/... > > Well, at least the guy has some doubts That's certainly true, but if complexity should refrain people using a language, they should immediately stop programming with things like VB.NET or C#. In comparison Ada is a lightweight language... There is also the time element: you can take years to reach a 90% knowledge of Ada, but it is a life-long, useful investment. Think of your poor neighbours who must permanently buy and swallow huge Microsoft books that get deprecated after three years... ______________________________________________________________ Gautier's Ada programming -- http://gautiersblog.blogspot.com/