Re: Anyone out there using Ada ?

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 15:28:04 +0100, Chris H <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

It's a trap... when you identify yourselves they are going to come
around and forcibly convert you to the One True Language of FORTH!!!
:-)))))

And?

No I'm not going to do that, despite having several clients who
ship safety critical apps written in Forth, and despite having
tools to generate FDA (the US Food and Drug Administration)
quality documentation directly from Forth source code, and ...

As people have said elsewhere, the process really matters
more than the programming language.

Actually, I believe that the single thing that will improve
code most is to teach people *how* to debug. The process
is just formal scientific method. The second most inportant
change is to fix bugs before you do anything else. The third
is probably to use something like literate programming as
part of writing the code - it has greatly improved our code
quality, and almost always reveals bugs when we add it to
incoming third-party code.

Stephen


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