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: f5d71,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,304c86061dc69dba X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,5cb36983754f64da X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-02-10 01:56:43 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.DE!not-for-mail From: Dmitry A. Kazakov Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.java Subject: Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:05:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20040206174017.7E84F4C4114@lovelace.ada-france.org> <54759e7e.0402071124.322ea376@posting.google.com> <2460735.u7KiuvdgQP@linux1.krischik.com> <54759e7e.0402081525.50c7adae@posting.google.com> <54759e7e.0402091826.2847e0c@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tar-atanamir.cbb-automation.de (212.79.194.116) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1076407002 38348925 D 212.79.194.116 ([77047]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5384 comp.lang.c:21571 comp.lang.c++:18415 comp.lang.java:2829 Date: 2004-02-10T11:05:20+01:00 List-Id: On 9 Feb 2004 18:26:33 -0800, msg1825@yahoo.com (MSG) wrote: >Thanks very much to everyone for the interesting info. It made me look >more closely at Ada. It looks like it is indeed one of the safest >languages among the ones that aren't garbage collected, which probably >makes it suitable for programming things like airplanes, etc.: > >1. hard real-time >2. bug-averse >3. not very performance demanding (don't know about other compilers, >but they say GNAT produces slow executables) > >However, it does not look like it's a good match for me, since my >needs are the exact opposite: > >1. no real time This is easy in Ada: loop null; end loop; -- The rest won't meet any deadline! >2. bugs welcome (but not wrong results) - lusers will not come near my >programs It is easy to write a virus program scanning your source codes and randomly sowing them with bugs, if you so enjoy them... >3. performance is highly important GNAT is a front end of GNU C... -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov www.dmitry-kazakov.de