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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,4d3e59455e947c5e X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.66.74.40 with SMTP id q8mr1550232pav.19.1344318733906; Mon, 06 Aug 2012 22:52:13 -0700 (PDT) Path: p10ni2601331pbh.1!nntp.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!ctu-peer!ctu-gate!news.nctu.edu.tw!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Patrick Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Suitability of Ada as a general-purpose language Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 05:12:08 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 70.53.16.194 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1343650420 26059 127.0.0.1 (30 Jul 2012 12:13:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:13:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=70.53.16.194; posting-account=cUi90woAAADTaOISowbbHM8GUD0-opJO User-Agent: G2/1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Date: 2012-07-30T05:12:08-07:00 List-Id: Hi Dufr I like all sorts of things about Ada but one of the best features for me is the "police state" compiler. I don't have so decades of experience with C++ bug bites and Ada will help save me from some of my own errors, strong typing is great. There are not a lot of libraries but check out GCC -fdump-ada-spec and it's sidekick -fdump-ada-spec-slim. They will help bind to C code. Ada can interface with other languages too. I write a skeleton of what I want in C and then bind to that instead of creating full bindings. Please don't be discouraged with all the dead links around the net, an Ada compiler ought to be available 20 years from now. Long term, recent projects like the Boeing 787 use Ada. There are lots of cheap used Ada books at abebooks and lots of pdf Ada books on the net If you have any question I would love to help, although I only have 7 months with Ada myself