[Info-vax] [OT] Programming languages, was: Re: Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

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In article <keh5hd$p3p$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2013-02-01, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>> In article <kegcsp$nke$3 at dont-email.me>,
>> 	Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>> On 2013-02-01, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>>>> In article <an0jjrFduj7U1 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>>>
>>>>>I've seen more comments in COBOL than in Ada.  Does that make COBOL a
>>>>>better language for writing an F16 Flight Control System?
>>>>
>>>> Does that make Ada a better language for writing a financial application?
>>>>  
>>> 
>>> Actually, Ada probably _is_ a better language than COBOL for writing
>>> financial applications. :-)
>>
>> Not a chance.  It is actually debatable that Ada is a better language
>> for any application.  If it had stuck to its original goals, maybe
>> but once it became a mouse designed by committee all bets were off.
>>
>
>You just have to make sure you stay with the core set of features and only
>use the additional features if you need them.
>
>My experience is with Ada 95; I have not bothered looking at any of the
>later versions as I have not yet seen anything I really need in them.
>
>BTW, sometimes I go looking for new languages which can be used for real
>time embedded programming on the typical boards available today and have
>been designed to be safer than C.
>
>I've come across multiple versions of Oberon, Modula 2/3, and Pascal and
>out of this list Ada still seems more viable for this (when you want
>something more than C) than those languages.
>
>Yes, I know about C++ :-), but I have decided not to go down that path
>for my own embedded projects. What is been taught by universities as
>Ada's replacement these days ?

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