C++ was a huge step backward from Ada, IMHO. There'd have been no
need for Purify if everyone programmed in Ada instead of C and C++.
How many billions of dollars have been lost just to = vs ==, much
less to memory leaks.
Pascal was a teaching language never intended for industrial use.
Both Pascal and Ada are Algol-style languages, which optimize for
human readability. The developers of C optimized instead for "minimal
keystrokes during program entry", and C++ inherited this unfortunate
decision. We type a program once; we read it many times over its life.
But we digress...
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, Steve Hajducek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> Speaking of Ada, I developed the MS-Windows AMDS (
>
https://peoiewswebinfo.monmouth.army.mil/portal_sites/IEWS_Public/rus/
/AMDS.htm
> ) for the I-REMBASS Battlefield Sensor System in Ada for the U.S.
> Army due to requirements (Ada is a very good large embedded systems
> language, it is very much PASCAL like ) to use Ada, but the
> compilers were never great. When I wrote Sight It! LOS (
> http://www.n2ckh.com/SI/sight_it.htm ) for the hobby based on all
I
> had to learn to do AMDS and showed it off to my employer and Army
> bosses, AMDS went from ADA to C++ pretty darn fast, which did not
> bother me at all. Years later when I stated working in the
ASIC/FPGA
> world along comes VHDL which is based on Ada, I was glad that those
5
> years up time January 2005 were just spend selling the
ModelSim/FPGA
> Advantage and other VHDL CAD tools and not actually doing
development
> in VHDL (or Verilog) which are both facing stiff C++ competition
these days.
>
> PC-ALE and MARS-ALE are both MS C++/MFC developed tools.
>
> /s/ Steve, N2CKH
>
> At 11:50 AM 8/31/2006, you wrote:
> >Re "Dr. Hopper is also know for her work on "Flow-Matic" business
> >language, COBOL and Ada.
> >
> > >>>I met Grace Hopper when we (Rational Software) validated the
first
> >Ada compiler in the early 80s. She was inspirational...
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > Dave, AA6YQ
>
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