Pierre Labastie wrote:
Concerning Ada, it is really different: the package is mature, Ada is
used by some category of persons (in aerospace industry at least), and
it does not add any new dependencies, so I think we may have it in the
book.
Ada was designed for the US Department of Defense, supposedly for
reliability when coding. I did spend many years for the Air Force
writing and maintaining code, but never had to use Ada directly. I did
study it a bit and examined some code written with it.
I can say for a fact that really bad code can be written in Ada (or any
language). It's not the language, it's the programmer. It's also very
hard to get code to compile due to extremely strict type checking.
Other than military use, where it is mandated for some applications, I
don't know of many that use it.
http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~mfeldman/ada-project-summary.html
To me, the highest reliability requirement was for the Mars Curiosity
landing craft and that was 2.5 million lines of C.
All that said, if you have it ready, I have no objections to having it
in the book.
-- Bruce
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