Re: Tired of the Ada vs. (Pick your language) discussion

[eagle!lims01.lerc.nasa.gov!withrow@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Jim Withrow)]

In article <1992Dec16.213258.23655@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com> lam@saifr00.cfs
at.honeywell.com (Josh Lam) writes:
>From: lam@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com (Josh Lam)
>Subject: Re: Tired of the Ada vs. (Pick your language) discussion
>Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 21:32:58 GMT
>
>In article <BzCs15.B28@gdls.CSCTMD.COM> tarcea@gdls.CSCTMD.COM (Glenn Tarcea) 
writes:
>
>
>Glenn>   Can we please stay on the topic of discussing Ada, and Ada in
>Glenn> real-world systems. All languages have their strengths and weaknesses
>Glenn> and I am tired of hearing religous comparisons of why either Ada is
>Glenn> better than language X or language X is better than Ada. Maybe a news
>Glenn> group called comp.lang.religion should be started for these stupid
>Glenn> discussions. I program in both 'C' and Ada and I can appreciate the
>Glenn> strengths (and weaknesses) of each of the languages, I don't need
>Glenn> somebody to give me their supposedly unbiased opinion on language
>Glenn> greatness.
>
>I agree whole-heartly!
>
>Let's make more constructive use of this newsgroup.  Also, its nice to see
>champions of various languages eg Grady Booch and Bjarne Stroustrup working
>and holding conferences together. Let's learn from them and be gracious.
>
>-- 
>Josh Lam
>Honeywell Inc
>lam@saifr00.cfsat.honeywell.com
>

It would be nice to see more discussions on using Ada, and less comparing it 
against ___ language.  Some of us MUST use it, and although it may not 
be the language of choice, it still must be used.