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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc1361a952ec75ca X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-01 19:42:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-peer1.tiac.net!posterchild2.tiac.net!not-for-mail From: "David Starner" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How to make Ada a dominant language Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 02:36:17 +0100 Organization: WWW.US.INTER.NET Message-ID: <9kae23$38a$1@news-central.tiac.net> References: <3B6555ED.9B0B0420@sneakemail.com> <9k3l9r$10i2$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B656345.64AB603A@sneakemail.com> <9k3oa1$2qg8$1@pa.aaanet.ru> <3B657715.7EC592D9@sneakemail.com> <3B659726.33E301CA@san.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ip39.alva1.ok.pub-ip.ionet.net X-Trace: news-central.tiac.net 996719492 3338 38.193.124.39 (2 Aug 2001 02:31:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@us.inter.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 02:31:32 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11018 Date: 2001-08-02T02:36:17+01:00 List-Id: Darren New wrote in message news:3B659726.33E301CA@san.rr.com... >> �Don't use C; In my opinion, C is a library programming language >> not an app programming language.� - Owen Taylor (GTK+ developer) > > C is a sucky library programming language as well. Less sucky than a lot > of other things, but the lack of any sort of first-class non-primitive > data really bites for library development. (I.e., the fact that you > can't return a string is quite a hinderance to most of the libraries I > tend to write.) But it has the huge advantage of having the stablest, standardist binary API on most systems, and being useable from almost every programming language in active use. Often, the only safe way to connect to systems in the same language compiled by different compilers is through a C interface. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org "The pig -- belongs -- to _all_ mankind!" - Invader Zim