Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Thu, 10 Mar 2011 09:26:20 +0100, Nasser M. Abbasi <nma@12000.org> a  
écrit:
> 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 :)
>
> 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.
You may be comparing things the wrong way. May be Ada is just covering  
many areas. This is not the same as covering one area with many  
complications.


> I miss turbo pascal now ;)
>
> --Nasser
Wake me some good memories too :)


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