Re: Top 10 Ada myths

[creedy@mitre.org (Chris Reedy)]

In article <51286.pukite@daina.com>, <pukite@daina.com> wrote:

> 
>  4. Myth: Ada is for wimps (or words to that effect).
>     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>     I don't have a good explanation for this one.  Is it the name Ada? 
>     Or maybe that Ada programming is not associated with software hackers,
>     many of whom actually _enjoy_ spending time debugging obfuscated code?
>     Actually, Ada programmers don't care what they get called, as long
>     as they can continue to compile working programs the first time 
>     through without needing to invoke a debugger.
>     

Unfortunately, there are too many programmers(?) who think that Ada is for
wimps because they don't believe that writing programs that can be read
and maintained by anyone other than themselves or their immediate cohorts
is an appropriate goal for a programming language (as opposed to getting
as close to the bare silicon as they can).

  Chris

The above opinions are my own and not MITRE's.
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