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: 103376,93a8e26f233f1cde X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Received: by 10.204.129.15 with SMTP id m15mr21194bks.2.1334185407566; Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Path: h15ni112960bkw.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!news.mixmin.net!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: Does Ada still competitive? Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 01:03:26 +0200 Organization: Ada @ Home Message-ID: References: <2667883.6.1334114293790.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@pblw1> NNTP-Posting-Host: UwkdScs80nuLepnm9Aghhw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Opera Mail/11.62 (Linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: Quoted-Printable Date: 2012-04-12T01:03:26+02:00 List-Id: Le Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:19:29 +0200, a =C3=A9crit: > So the usage of > "Return by Type" cause compiler errors on a massive scale on external.= > generic packages. This is one of many proof that Ada is not backward > compatible. So, company like NASA are moving away from Ada to a more > stable language that is 100% backward compatible like C. No rewrites > on any package only compile, link and execute. You meant =E2=80=9Ccompile, don't check, link and execute=E2=80=9D? -- = =E2=80=9CSyntactic sugar causes cancer of the semi-colons.=E2=80=9D [1] =E2=80=9CStructured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.= =E2=80=9D [1] [1]: Epigrams on Programming =E2=80=94 Alan J. =E2=80=94 P. Yale Univers= ity