From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol)
Subject: Re: Suggestions to a Newbie
Date: 2000/08/18
Date: 2000-08-18T07:55:20+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrn8ppqtl.7k0.randhol+abuse@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 399C4A87.F0A16B8C@acm.org
On Thu, 17 Aug 2000 16:26:47 -0400, Marin D. Condic wrote:
>for high reliability and long-lived systems. Normally, you'd not use it
>for things that are quick-and-dirty where (for example) something like a
>shell scripting language would be more appropriate. For most other
>things it works just fine. Check out the websites mentioned and the
>others linked to from there. You'll find many people have written about
>what Ada is useful for.
Hrmf, I just made a small Ada program to format text to be sent as SMS
to my celluar phone. It probably could have been done in perl, but it
took me less time to do it in Ada and it worked right away :-)
--
Preben Randhol - Ph. D student - http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/
"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent", Isaac Asimov
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-08-17 0:00 Suggestions to a Newbie Cagdas Ozgenc
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-08-17 0:00 ` tmoran
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-08-17 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-08-18 0:00 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-08-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-08-19 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
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