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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: aidan@skinner.demon.co.uk (Aidan Skinner) Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459763905 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 922557263 nnrp-13:19702 NO-IDENT skinner.demon.co.uk:158.152.76.219 Organization: skinner.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Fri, 26 Mar 1999 18:32:49 GMT, John McCabe wrote: >I can't understand where you got that idea from. I find with Ada I can >just sit down and code something, and most times, if the language >allows what I've written, what the compiler produces does what I want. I'm a firm believer that (good) Ada code Means what it Says and Says what it Means. This can't be said for C* (even for good C*). - Aidan -- "Every time I see her I want to geek..." "I say geek. If she runs then it was never meant to be. But if you talk about routers, TCP/IP and programming and she stays, she's yours until the counter flips"