Re: Another article involving Ada on /.

[Mark Lorenzen <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk>]

"Xenos" <dont.spam.me@spamhate.com> writes:

> "Mark Lorenzen" <mark.lorenzen@ofir.dk> wrote in message
> news:m3pt7jpiq1.fsf@0x5358cece.boanxx18.adsl-dhcp.tele.dk...
> > Here:
> http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/04/06/28/170245.shtml?tid=126&tid=156&tid=172
> >
> > The usual hacker-comments on Ada are also present in the
> > discussion. If anyone has /. mod-points left for today, please do your
> > duty now ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Mark Lorenzen
> 
> The article is not on SlashDot, its on the ACM Queue and says nothing bad

The article is on slashdot and it references an article on the ACM Queue.

> about Ada.  Unless you are offended by article say it wasn't the
> end-all-be-all, fix-all-your-problems language many hoped it to be.  The
> point being, no language--however great--is going to fix all your woes.  The

The article is completely hopeless, but that is off-topic in this NG.

> only negative thing I read in the comments made some incorrect comments
> about its library.  Replies to which, corrected the OP.  Not everyone who

The comments *are* the usual comment about Ada being too verbose, and
C/C++ being easier to read. These are the comment from people who
write programs that have a lifetime of one year and never have to do
any maintenance themselves.

> reads SlashDot is uneducated or biased (though I would take being called a
> "hacker" a compliment).  Ada's a tool, not a religion.  I use it a lot at

For me "hacker" is a derogatory term.

> work, but I also use several other languages where needed (needed is not
> always equal to "what you would like to use").
> 
> DrX

Regards,
- Mark Lorenzen