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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,897417b380f5731e,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108f76,30642ebe66855cf7 X-Google-Attributes: gid108f76,public From: Ray Blaak Subject: Re: The Next Microsoft? Date: 2000/05/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 619641959 Sender: blaak@LANGLEY References: <8eg37k$15n$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8epkoa$b8b$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8eu0ob$7qv$1@nnrp1.deja.com> Followup-To: comp.lang.ada X-Complaints-To: news@bctel.net X-Trace: news.bc.tac.net 957544420 209.53.149.68 (Fri, 05 May 2000 09:33:40 PDT) Organization: The Transcend NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 09:33:40 PDT Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written,comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > In article , > GSV Three Minds in a Can 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.