David, I am not familiar with Ada, interesting have written C,Cobol,PL/1 . ADA like other languages sounds like it has it strengths.
Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Sep 30, 2013, at 2:25 AM, David Crayford <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 30/09/2013 2:11 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)#History > > There is no doubt that Ada is a much, much better programming language then > PL/I, C, COBOL etc. It's lack of popularity is probably due to > the substantial inertia of it's peers, ala Betamax vs VHS. > >>> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 12:11 AM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Gerhard, >>> I wonder why the government chose Ada...? >>> >>> Scott ford >>> www.identityforge.com >>> from my IPAD >>> >>> 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' >>> >>> >>>>> On Sep 29, 2013, at 10:09 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 9/29/2013 9:45 PM, John McKown wrote: >>>>> is. But I don't think that Ada took off any better than PL/I did. So much >>>>> for either of them being the "one language to rule them all". >>>> While I don't know what the current status is, there was at one time an >>>> edict that all U.S. Government work had to be done with Ada. A friend of >>>> mine spent almost as much time finding compiler (and language definition) >>>> problems as doing coding. >>>> >>>> Gerhard Postpischil >>>> Bradford, Vermont >>>> >>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >>> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
