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: 103376,325c54deb91283fd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-04-28 10:33:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!ntnu.no!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada in Iraq Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:33:37 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Norwegian university of science and technology Message-ID: References: <1051282861.155019@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> <1051548320.145019@master.nyc.kbcfp.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: kiuk0152.chembio.ntnu.no X-Trace: tyfon.itea.ntnu.no 1051551217 23975 129.241.83.78 (28 Apr 2003 17:33:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:33:37 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:36696 Date: 2003-04-28T17:33:37+00:00 List-Id: Hyman Rosen wrote: > When people set out to design a software system in Ada, and they > don't know Ada throughly and deeply, how likely is it that the > design will be "good Ada", as opposed to a bastard version of > the language that they do know? When people set out to design a software system in C++, and they don't know C++ throughly and deeply, how likely is it that the design will be "good C++" [*], as opposed to a bastard version of the language that they do know? My answer is that I believe they will find it easier to make a good design in Ada as opposed to C++ [*] A mindboggling concept, but for the sake of this exercise. -- Preben Randhol http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/