Re: No call for Ada (was Re: Announcing new scripting/prototyping language)

From: Dmitry A. Kazakov (mailbox_at_dmitry-kazakov.de)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 11:05:20 +0100

On 9 Feb 2004 18:26:33 -0800, msg1825@yahoo.com (MSG) wrote:

>Thanks very much to everyone for the interesting info. It made me look
>more closely at Ada. It looks like it is indeed one of the safest
>languages among the ones that aren't garbage collected, which probably
>makes it suitable for programming things like airplanes, etc.:
>
>1. hard real-time
>2. bug-averse
>3. not very performance demanding (don't know about other compilers,
>but they say GNAT produces slow executables)
>
>However, it does not look like it's a good match for me, since my
>needs are the exact opposite:
>
>1. no real time

This is easy in Ada:

loop
   null;
end loop;
   -- The rest won't meet any deadline!

>2. bugs welcome (but not wrong results) - lusers will not come near my
>programs

It is easy to write a virus program scanning your source codes and
randomly sowing them with bugs, if you so enjoy them...

>3. performance is highly important

GNAT is a front end of GNU C... 

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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
www.dmitry-kazakov.de

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