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 15:31:46 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
> The  difference
> between 80's (when Ada and C++ were originated) and now is huge. Unless
> really new computing paradigms arise (quantum, molecular computing),
Will not be part of every-day use computers any way (this will target  
communication and security, mainly).

> it is
> perfectly clear how a good language must look like.
Precisely no. What it must look like comes with experience, and  
experiences requires some time. And when an update is made to answer  
requirements which came from previous experiences, these updates will be  
source of new experiences, and etc. This is a long time maturation  
process. The issue here may just be backward compatibility (and to not be  
forced to switch to any future standard), and there is no reason to  
complain this process takes long, as long as the material you already have  
is good enough.


>> BC++ is crap. If you have to target it, you can expect problems and I
>> can understand that the combination with the other two is problematic.
>
> How a company which produced the first people's C++ compiler managed to
> achieve this pitiful state 20 years later?
Turbo Borland C++ was not good even since its early days (my first contact  
with C++, with with Turbo Borland C++).

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