From: Ray Blaak <blaak@infomatch.com>
Subject: Re: The Next Microsoft?
Date: 2000/05/05
Date: 2000-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4s8dosyz.fsf@infomatch.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8eu0ob$7qv$1@nnrp1.deja.com
> In article <E$OcUgAHHIE5Ewfl@quik.freeuk.net>,
> GSV Three Minds in a Can <GSV@quik.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> > And Windows (at least NT) ain't so bad. You really need to have tried
> > some 'government designed' programming languages like Coral-66 and ADA, to
> > appreciate that 'government designed' is an oxymoron, right up there with
> > Military Intelligence.
Don't know about Coral-66, but Ada is very well designed. This myth about
comitte-designed languages being somehow inferior is resoundingly false in
Ada's case. It is precisely because many heads were looking at it that the
details of the language all hang together.
Ada's strength is its readability of source code, strong typing and run-time
checks for safety, and general name space mechanisms for programming in the
large. It does its job very well.
It is only recently that you have languages like C++ "catching up" to Ada.
If you really want to argue this, go to comp.lang.ada.
--
Cheers, The Rhythm is around me,
The Rhythm has control.
Ray Blaak The Rhythm is inside me,
blaak@infomatch.com The Rhythm has my soul.
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2000-05-05 0:00 ` Ray Blaak [this message]
2000-05-05 0:00 ` The Next Microsoft? Bobby D. Bryant
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Mark Atwood
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Ayende Rahien
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Mark Atwood
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Bill Greene
2000-05-06 0:00 ` Ehud Lamm
2000-05-07 0:00 ` STL, Ada, C++ (Was Re: The Next Microsoft?) Brian Rogoff
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-07 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Hyman Rosen
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
2000-05-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-05-09 0:00 ` STL, Ada, C++ Harry Erwin
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
2000-05-09 0:00 ` STL, Ada, C++ (Was Re: The Next Microsoft?) Marin D. Condic
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-05-09 0:00 ` Marin D. Condic
2000-05-08 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 0:00 ` The Next Microsoft? Jon S Anthony
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