From: kcline@optelnow.net (Kevin Cline)
Subject: Re: Mainstream Ada
Date: 25 Feb 2002 10:14:21 -0800
Date: 2002-02-25T18:14:21+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dcfe911f.0202251014.16220578@posting.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3C78943B.9030600@mail.com
Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message news:<3C78943B.9030600@mail.com>...
> Richard Riehle wrote:
> > At present, functional requirements overshadow non-functional
> > requirements in the world of commercial software. That is,
> > features are easier to sell than quality.
>
> You know we usually fight over Ada vs. C++ issues, but I think
> I'm going to take Ada's side here. I don't like Ada all that
> much, but it's mostly for stylistic reasons. I believe, however,
> that an Ada programmer can pound out features just as well, and
> just as quickly, as a Java or C++ programmer. Are you really
> suggesting that commercial software developers who choose Ada
> will have to forego adding features to their software?
The fundamental problem continues to be the lack of high-quality
bindings to non-Ada facilities, e.g. OpenGL, Qt, relational databases, etc.
This does indeed make it much more difficult to add features
to Ada applications.
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-23 2:23 Mainstream Ada Al Mole
2002-02-23 17:21 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-24 7:17 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-24 14:24 ` Larry Kilgallen
2002-02-24 15:32 ` Jim Rogers
2002-02-25 14:53 ` Marin David Condic
2002-02-24 16:57 ` Mike Silva
2002-02-24 17:57 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-25 6:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2002-02-25 16:03 ` Richard Riehle
2002-02-25 18:14 ` Kevin Cline [this message]
2002-03-06 11:47 ` Joachim Schröer
2002-03-07 2:01 ` Al Mole
2002-03-07 9:06 ` Joachim Schröer
2002-02-25 1:05 ` Al Mole
2002-02-25 14:38 ` Marin David Condic
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