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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_FROM_MSSP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92ab0b93767eaa5e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 09:05:09 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!feed.textport.net!newsranger.com!www.newsranger.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Ted Dennison References: <3B82CD0B.4A551A42@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9lukgq$f5f$1@nh.pace.co.uk> Subject: Re: Comment on Ada usage Message-ID: X-Abuse-Info: When contacting newsranger.com regarding abuse please X-Abuse-Info: forward the entire news article including headers or X-Abuse-Info: else we will not be able to process your request X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsranger.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:04:47 EDT Organization: http://www.newsranger.com Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 16:04:47 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12246 Date: 2001-08-22T16:04:47+00:00 List-Id: In article <9lukgq$f5f$1@nh.pace.co.uk>, Marin David Condic says... >Still, the tone was definitely condescending to both of us Ada programmers. >:-) Of course, complaining about it isn't going to help - basically he's >right. There isn't much Ada use in embedded systems compared to C(++) and >the guys doing that work aren't terribly fond of Ada. The way to correct the One of the more respectable industry survery numbers he mentioned put Ada at %10. That's obviously not a majority, but neither is it an insignificant number that can be freely ignored, like he goes on to imply. Then again, about %10 of all people are left handed like me, but everyone building manually-manipuated objects acts like we don't exist either. So its not like this annoying attitude is unique to this one author, or even programming languages in general. --- T.E.D. homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html home email - mailto:dennison@telepath.com