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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?Yannick_Duch=C3=AAne_=28Hibou57?= =?utf-8?Q?=29?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:38:06 +0100 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <4d78867e$0$23760$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <87r5afv0qa.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <4d78a96b$0$23753$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4d78c3c6$0$23757$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1wcgairebjd7m.1i237ckyxwpe5.dlg@40tude.net> <11zqndd40kbz5$.9y0rytl76z0h.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: Y6LCYkKy5RQem2HQeZ5OLQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.01 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:19099 Date: 2011-03-13T12:38:06+01:00 List-Id: Le Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:31:46 +0100, Dmitry A. Kazakov = a =C3=A9crit: > The difference > between 80's (when Ada and C++ were originated) and now is huge. Unles= s > 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 b= e = 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 ha= ve = 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 t= o > achieve this pitiful state 20 years later? Turbo Borland C++ was not good even since its early days (my first conta= ct = with C++, with with Turbo Borland C++). -- = Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es= t pas pour = les chiens. =E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]