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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!elnk-atl-nf1!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!01cc3b7c!not-for-mail Reply-To: "Richard Riehle" From: "Richard Riehle" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <49dc98cf.0408110556.18ae7df@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 17:41:45 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.81.218.150 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.pas.earthlink.net 1093023705 66.81.218.150 (Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:41:45 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2004 10:41:45 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2896 Date: 2004-08-20T17:41:45+00:00 List-Id: "Kevin Cline" 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. 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. It is a bit like voting in a major election. Richard Riehle