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=2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_DATE, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Xref: utzoo comp.lang.ada:2921 comp.lang.c++:5535 Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!pff From: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Pablo Fernicola) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: Ada Message-ID: <21248@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 17 Nov 89 18:53:32 GMT References: <7088@hubcap.clemson.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu () Organization: UF CIS Department List-Id: In article <7088@hubcap.clemson.edu> billwolf%hazel.cs.clemson.edu@hubcap.clemson.edu writes: > > Fortunately, as the IEEE Software article I cited demonstrates, > commercial use and acceptance of Ada is growing rapidly, both in In IEEE Software, Vol.5 Num. 3 page 26, we read "C++ has several advantages over Ada: ..." > > The experience so far has been that "once a team moved to Ada, > they stayed with Ada. Once Ada had been successfully used within > a company, its use proliferated to other projects within the > company and to subcontractors and suppliers of that company within > the industry." (Ada Letters, Vol. VIII, No. 5, page 15). Given ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Not a biased opinion, I hope :-) A common syllogism nowadays is (from the same IEEE Software issue) Ada is good; object-oriented is good; therefore, Ada is object oriented. > Bill Wolfe, wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu BTW, it is good to hear from Bill again after the misc.jobs.misc debacle ... -- pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu - Pablo Fernicola - Machine Intelligence Laboratory - UF IF YOU CARE ENOUGH TO READ SIGNATURES ... I am graduating next year and I am looking for a job. MS/BS EE, my graduate work incorporates OO-DBMS/Graphics/Robotics/AI