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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-31 00:35:36 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!129.240.148.23!uio.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: randhol+abuse@pvv.org (Preben Randhol) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <9k3l9r$10i2$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B656345.64AB603A@sneakemail.com> <9k3oa1$2qg8$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com> <3B659726.33E301CA@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 996564936 26623 129.241.83.82 (31 Jul 2001 07:35:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 07:35:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10835 Date: 2001-07-31T07:35:36+00:00 List-Id: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:19:32 GMT, Darren New wrote: >> �Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language >> not an app programming language.� - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) > > C is a sucky library programming language as well. Less sucky than a lot > of other things, but the lack of any sort of first-class non-primitive > data really bites for library development. (I.e., the fact that you > can't return a string is quite a hinderance to most of the libraries I > tend to write.) I agree fully with you, but I think there is more to gain for Ada if one use it first to develop new apps, then later libraries/OSes :-) Preben -- �Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language not an app programming language.� - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) Use Ada 95, a free language. More info at http://www.adapower.com/