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Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular?
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"Jeffrey R. Carter" <jrcarter@acm.org> writes:

> Markus E Leypold wrote:
>> Not to promote C, but purely from a logical perspective: The
>> "continuing creation of buffer-overflow errors in C" only shows that
>> there exist programmers/humans that don't always create safe programs
>> in C.
>
> Don't you get logical on me here. I maintain that it is impossible for
> humans to write safe C. For proof by blatant assertion, see my
> previous post.

:-)

>
>> I'd like just to point out that the world even in this respect is
>> neither black and white (or at least you haven't demonstrated that
>> convincingly yet), but more shades of gray. I concede the gray might
>> be lighter in Ada sector and darker in the C sector, but I'd prefer
>> quantitative arguments / reasoning in this world and some effort to
>> estimate the difference between those shades over striking but
>> logically flawed reasoning. I want absolutes I'll turn to religion. :-).
>
> All together now: Put your hands on the monitor. Say, "I believe in Ada!"

Yeees, that's more like it. If we all do this and are pure of spirit
(no C-thought!!) we'll overwhelm THEM with the pure power of our mind
fields.

I'm glad you take this with a bit of humor. But I would like to
emphasize once again that -- not only in the game Ada vs. C, but
most/every other programming language / development paradigm advocacy
-- I'm missing hard data. 

(I say this again here, since a number of my posts from yesterday
where I explained all that seem to have fallen into a black hole).

Regards -- Markus