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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,50601885924edfd3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-06-06 10:32:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd950e5a1.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail From: Gerhard =?iso-8859-15?Q?H=E4ring?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Microsoft .Net, Ada should be at the head of this list Date: 6 Jun 2002 17:32:41 GMT Organization: People's Front of Judea Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pd950e5a1.dip.t-dialin.net (217.80.229.161) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1023384761 1011988 217.80.229.161 (16 [124666]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Cache-Post-Path: gargamel.hqd-internal!unknown@lilith.hqd-internal X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:25414 Date: 2002-06-06T17:32:41+00:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote in comp.lang.ada: > I totally agree. I would also like to add that Ada has very > significant commercial advantages beyond the obvious technological > ones. Ada has? Are you trying to say that using Ada has commercial advantages in comparison to using other programming langauges? Answering this question depends on the requirements of the development team in question, budgets, available libraries and tools, developer qualification, and more. For _a lot_ of projects, I'd personally not recommend to use Ada. > 1) It can be created in a distribute environment. Are you trying to say that it is better suited for distributed _development_? I doubt the choice of programming language makes a great difference there. > 2) As I have proposed, one can build a program based on ASIS to > divide up the royalties. Which is such a pressing need that it has been implemented before for other languages. > 3) Ada is exotic. One could hype the > technology. Obviously, you're doing your best to do so. I only find your choice of audience a strange one. Gerhard -- mail: gerhard bigfoot de registered Linux user #64239 web: http://www.cs.fhm.edu/~ifw00065/ OpenPGP public key id AD24C930 public key fingerprint: 3FCC 8700 3012 0A9E B0C9 3667 814B 9CAA AD24 C930 reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))