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From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.acm.org>
Subject: Re: N best things about Ada?
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:19:32 -0700
Date: 2010-07-08T19:19:32-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <i1618v$98f$1@tornado.tornevall.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <97691fd2-7411-4ccc-bc7b-290aca633cd5@z30g2000prg.googlegroups.com>

On 07/08/2010 05:52 PM, usenet@scriptoriumdesigns.com wrote:
> Serious question:  What do you consider the N best things / strong
> points / biggest benefits of using Ada?  I'm asking as part of my case-
> building for using Ada at work.  Of course I have my own list, but I
> don't have anywhere near the Ada experience of most of you folks.

Off the top of my head:

Separation of spec and body
Application-defined numeric types
High-level, safe concurrency
Early detection of common errors
Great expressiveness

-- 
Jeff Carter
"When danger reared its ugly head, he bravely
turned his tail and fled."
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-07-09  2:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-09  0:52 N best things about Ada? usenet
2010-07-09  1:23 ` Britt Snodgrass
2010-07-13 19:05   ` Pascal Obry
2010-07-13 19:26     ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-07-14  1:12       ` BrianG
2010-07-14  3:00         ` Britt Snodgrass
2010-07-14  3:52           ` Shark8
2010-07-14 19:08         ` Simon Wright
2010-07-09  2:19 ` Jeffrey R. Carter [this message]
2010-07-09  3:08 ` anon
2010-07-09  8:29   ` tonyg
2010-07-10  5:14     ` anon
2010-07-09  9:18 ` Alex R. Mosteo
2010-07-09 11:52 ` John McCormick
2010-07-09 17:27   ` (see below)
2010-07-12 14:05 ` Shark8
2010-07-12 15:13   ` Robert A Duff
2010-07-12 16:14     ` Shark8
2010-07-12 19:44     ` Simon Wright
2010-07-12 21:06   ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2010-07-13 16:18 ` Warren
2010-07-13 17:21   ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-13 17:34     ` Warren
2010-07-13 17:51   ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2010-07-14 18:46     ` Georg Bauhaus
2010-07-14  4:11 ` usenet
2010-07-17  1:18 ` Gautier write-only
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