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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,dab7d920e4340f12 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public From: dirk@hera.informatik.unibw-muenchen.de (Dirk Dickmanns) Subject: Re: C is 'better' than Ada because... Date: 1996/07/24 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169860263 references: <31daad10.57288085@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31ebfbd7.330061022@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <31EE19D1.6977@lfwc.lockheed.com> <31efe069.63062188@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <4sopkp$dao@itfhps00.itf.hcsd.ca> <31f3c396.238311543@netline-fddi.jpl.nasa.gov> <01bb78b1$28455ec0$87ee6fce@timpent.airshields.com> organization: University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c Date: 1996-07-24T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: "Tim Behrendsen" writes: > ... >I am totally ignorant of Ada, except for a book I flipped through a >long time ago. I use C, because it has the most infrastructure along >with it, including programming talent. I'm in business to make money, >not to push back the frontiers of computer science (the pioneers take >the arrows). >My personal preference is for small nuts-and-bolts languages, anyway. >Ada always seemed too "kitchen sink" for my tastes. >My question is this, and I really don't mean this snidely: If Ada is so >good, why are the only companies that use it are the ones that deal with >the government, which make them use it? Ada has had plenty of time to >develop the infrastructure that C has developed, so it can't be a "I >don't want to be first" mentality on the part of industry. Top five why not Ada: 5 Ada always seemed too "kitchen sink" for my tastes. 4 I'm in business to make money. 3 My personal preference is for small nuts-and-bolts languages, anyway. 2 I use C. 1 I am totally ignorant of Ada. You answered your question before stating it ;-) Dirk -- Dirk Dickmanns -- REALIS -- real-time dynamic computer vision Sun OS 4.1.3; PC Linux; Ada, OCCAM, C, Eiffel, PROLOG, C++