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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