Re: Microsoft .Net, Ada should be at the head of this list

["Gerhard Häring" <gerhard@bigfoot.de>]

Pascal Obry wrote in comp.lang.ada:
> Gerhard Hï¿œring <gerhard@bigfoot.de> writes:
> 
>> qualification, and more. For _a lot_ of projects, I'd personally not
>> recommend to use Ada.
> 
> Which kinds ? Just curious.

Web applications, fat clients accessing databases and everything where
the cost of producing libraries, that are easily available for other
languages would not be justified.

>> > 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.
> 
> I do not agree. The Distributed Annex (well GLADE since only GNAT implement
> it AFAIK) is far easier to use than say RMI or CORBA.

I agree. This and the support of good threading and thread
synchronization _in the language_ are the single most outstanding
features of Ada for me. Plus the availability of GENERICs. I'd go as
far as saying that a language without GENERICs (Java) doesn't justify
the pain of using it instead of just using a dynamically typed
language in the first place (way too much casts in Java).

But the O. P. and I were speaking about distributed development in the
sense of a development team that is distributed among different
locations, probably worldwide. I don't think that using Ada has an
advantage here, especially as this seems to work just fine for open
source projects using other languages. The choice of source control
software and development methodologies are probably a more important
choice for distributed teams.

Gerhard
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