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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-19 09:26:49 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news.uunet.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use") References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:12:14 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1069261898 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:11:38 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:11:38 EST Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2679 Date: 2003-11-19T12:12:14-05:00 List-Id: Alexandre E. Kopilovitch wrote: > Warren W. Gay wrote: > >>For General Purpose (GP) programming, Ada suffers from two main >>drawbacks: > > I can't guess what you call General Purpose programming, but anyway, for it > (as its name suggests) Ada suffers form exactly one fundamental "drawback" - > Ada is for Specific Purpose programming. I am thinking along the lines that GP /= Embedded ; ;-) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg