Re: ARPA,Air Force,Navy publicly brag about a great C++ code

[agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!venice!gumby.dsd.trw.com!truffula.fp.trw .com!trwacs!erwin@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Harry Erwin)]

The problem with Ada is that it doesn't do what it was designed to do well
enough to overcome its short-term economic disadvantages. Ada is a niche
language (high reliability applications, embedded applications, and
maintainable applications), and it has to do those -->very<-- well to
survive. The successor to Ada should not be Ada++. Rather, it should be a
language optimized for its niche. Based on watching a number of
interesting programs, I question whether Ada is good enough at what it is
supposed to do to survive. That's a shame, since my life sometimes depends
on software doing its function very reliably.

Cheers,
-- 
Harry Erwin
Internet: erwin@trwacs.fp.trw.com
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