Re: More Ganssle on Ada

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 17/01/2013 23:32, Jeffrey Carter a �crit :
> AdaCore's response on when to use C: "Maybe it's a small custom chip
>  for which the manufacturer doesn't provide anything other than C."

and Randy:
> The article also claimed that Ada wouldn't be a good choice for a
> web server. Besides the fact that I wrote my own web server in Ada,
> I suspect all of the people using AWS would disagree. Perhaps the 
> author meant web *client* (where the choices are "Javascript" or 
> something that compiles into Javascript).

To which I would add:
> Where there's no reliability-oriented concern whatsoever, (...) I
> personally would have a preference towards Visual Basic.

I was also confused by these responses, but I think in these cases, the
"I" is the paper's author (Jack Ganssle), not AdaCore's opinion. And he
had to show some balance between the various languages.

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