In article ,
Penta writes:
On Sat, 3 Jan 2004 19:36:38 -0800, "Tarver Engineering"
wrote:

We here at ram have agreed that Ada gained maturity with the '95 release.

Thank goodness the F-35 is a later bird.

Presuming, of course, that Ada could ever be said to have deserved to
live.

It does its job. If you're good, and you know the fundamentals, you
can do anything in anything.
(I'll have to dig uop the Sieve of Aristophenes I wrote in TECO some
time. That one one me a night's worth of beer.)

Remind me again, why doesn't DOD use a more conventional language like
C++, Java, etc etc etc?

C++: Perfectly adequate, as long as the proper tools are used to make
sure that teh team is actually following the standards, and not
screwing themselves up with improper bounds checking, exception
handling, and other such details. Integrating really large projects
from multiple teams is a Gold-Plated Bitch, especially if anyone is
stupid enough to use the totally upge****t Microsoft crud.

Java: Hopelessly unreliable, and impossible to write deterministic
real-time code in. Java's neat for little toy programs, and it makes
the Professor's job of correcting classwork easier, but it should
never be used in situations where People Could Die or Go to Jail when
it fails.

etc. etc. etc. - make sure you know what you're on about. There's
Good Money to be had being able to read, understand, and write Jovial,
for instance.

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster