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: a07f3367d7,3e070dca458e63a6 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Received: by 10.181.13.205 with SMTP id fa13mr1715924wid.3.1358655492293; Sat, 19 Jan 2013 20:18:12 -0800 (PST) Path: o9ni8418wio.1!nntp.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!85.12.40.130.MISMATCH!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border3.nntp.ams.giganews.com!border1.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J-P. Rosen" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: More Ganssle on Ada Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:23:53 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 06:23:55 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="709a3b9124d052b085bf6fc3f0a2adab"; logging-data="20704"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1870slQNfte3nnjNiQJxBtv" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130107 Thunderbird/17.0.2 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:p3px3B+CjWfGZZyFs8gyDJ+YwCI= X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 2013-01-18T07:23:53+01:00 List-Id: 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. -- J-P. Rosen Adalog 2 rue du Docteur Lombard, 92441 Issy-les-Moulineaux CEDEX Tel: +33 1 45 29 21 52, Fax: +33 1 45 29 25 00 http://www.adalog.fr