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: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!85.214.198.2.MISMATCH!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 11:45:55 +0100 Organization: Adalog Message-ID: References: <4d78867e$0$23760$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:46:04 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="vslmL83UgSXHD8TS0/yPxA"; logging-data="12218"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX195yzvnBWq7s+w/htp7Zi3x" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Thunderbird/3.1.9 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:qnq2F3WKmfPi5b/a+dlADMXOUBM= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19005 Date: 2011-03-10T11:45:55+01:00 List-Id: Le 10/03/2011 09:26, Nasser M. Abbasi a �crit : > On 3/10/2011 12:06 AM, Thomas L�cke wrote: > >> Why add a bunch of new features, if the old ones still aren't fully >> operational? >> > > I think it is by 'law' that an ISO standard language needs to be > updated every 5 or so years? > > Something to keep the language lawyers busy all the time :) It's the opposite: once a language is standardized, it does not change for 5 years. After that period, the committee has to decide on reconducting the standard as-is for another five year period, or starting a revision. > As an effect of this, one can see that computer languages start > simple, and in couple of decades they all become so complicated > and complex to use. Then a new simple language comes along, > and the cycle starts again. > > This happens to all languages, look at the new FORTRAN. If you > think Ada is complex and has lots of features, you need to > look at new Fortran. > > Also, Look at Java now, it started as a simple language in 1995, > now I find it the language very complicated with all the additions > made to it. > > I miss turbo pascal now ;) Your very true observation applies to Turbo-Pascal too... Look at Delphi now! -- --------------------------------------------------------- J-P. Rosen (rosen@adalog.fr) Adalog a d�m�nag� / Adalog has moved: 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00