Re: Ada (was Rival JSF teams fly final STOVL flights with flair, highlight strengths)

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"Bob Fritz" <rfritz@home.com> wrote in message
news:3B6DE593.D172D839@home.com...
: If I really cared about Ada I would rebut these remarks essentially
calling me a
: liar. Suffice it to say that 23 years experience with DOD software
including
: participation in the Red/Green selection and the early Ada process through
the
: late 80s result in my statements.

And my experience with DoD software, Ada applications, and contributions to
the Ada language standard -- also starting in the early days of Ada, but
then continuing through the 1990s and up to today -- indicates that your Ada
experience (which apparently ended over a decade ago) may be out of date.
Furthermore, there are contemporary references available from the Internet
that support my statements. To choose one of my points at random: If you do
not believe that there is a GNU compiler for Ada that is quite good and is
free, with versions available for both Windows and Unix, you can download a
version and see for yourself. Try the following sites for free downloads of
GNAT version 3.13p:

  wuarchive.wustl.edu/languages/ada/compiler/gnat/distrib/3.13p/

  cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/3.13p/

  packages.debian.org/unstable/devel/gnat.html

  linux.davecentral.com/4634_programcomp.html

Additional Ada tools (some released under the GPL) are available at:

  www.ada-france.org/ada-mode/

  www.adapower.net/gtkada/

  www.rrsoftware.com/html/prodinf/claw/clawintro.html

  libre.act-europe.fr/xmlada/

  adabroker.eu.org/

If you like to buy support with your compiler, try www.gnat.com.

(As an aside, I note that I used no personal attacks in my prior post --
certainly the word "liar" was never used. If you generally react this badly
to the possibility that you might be wrong, how did you ever make it through
23 years of software engineering without a nervous breakdown? :)