Re: How to Make Ada more widely used?

[world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian)]

>I don't intend to slam C, but there ARE portability problems with
>that language that are much reduced in Ada, due to the compiler
>verification process and the emphasis on standard development.
>Much of that process and emphasis derives from the Mandate.

Of course, thanks to the Mandate, there are virtually no Ada support
libraries for most applications domains, while despite the problems
of C, there are hundreds of commercial and thousands of public domain
support libraries in C.  Thus for a few things, Ada programmers do
quite well, while for most other applications, Ada programmers can't
do anything at all.  The Mandate has allow the destruction of a
commercial Ada business, which despite DoD denials, hurts DoD
software development and drives up costs.

Greg
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