Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request

[fmdf@tiscali.it (fabio de francesco)]

"Richard  Riehle" <adaworks@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:<tJqVc.7839$3O3.4242@newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net>...
> "Kevin Cline" <kevin.cline@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:e749549b.0408200838.43e841d@posting.google.com...
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> I have read your reasons for preferring C++ over Ada,
> and appreciate that you have looked at this matter
> with diligence and an honest sense of inquiry.   Because
> of my confidence in the intelligent approach you took
> to reach your conclusions, I will not presume to persuade
> you to depart from your position.

What intelligent approach? He (Kevin) was able(?) to demonstrate that
some of the most interesting and powerful features of Ada represent
its major faults. I think He simply doesn't understand how to use
those features for achieving the better results and for the clever
maintaining of programs.

>   I will say that, the
> more I compare C++ and Ada (and I do have to use
> C++ in some of my own work), the more I prefer
> Ada.   Reasonable people can disagree on this kind
> of thing.  None of these programming languages
> represent revealed truth.   All have flaws.  We often
> must decide which flaws we can best tolerate, rather
> than which good features can be of greatest benefit.

I have been writing Ada code since only a couple of months and the
more I learn Ada the more I prefer this one to C++ and to all the
other programming languages I know, with the only exception of
Assembly.

> It is a bit like voting in a major election.
> 
> Richard Riehle

I don't think so. It shouldn't be just a matter of personal preference
or a matter of taste. I have begun to think that in order to really
understand, appreciate and use Ada, someone is to have some more
experience, open mind and a more vast computer science background than
that we commonly find in the average programmer. In some way, the
refuse of Ada recalls to me the same ridiculus position took by some C
programmer towards C++.

Ciao,
Fabio De Francesco