Ada is mentioned in a favorable light in the current issue of the Rational
Edge newsletter at
http://www.therationaledge.com/content/jan_01/f_craftsci_kb.html.

On the last page of the article and again in the conclusion, Ada is given
more than faint praise and is even compared with C++ in a favorable light.

>It would be nice to have a design language or modeling tool that could
>visually describe the
>architecture of an entire system -- including all types of design elements
>-- in a uniform way.
>Although such a design language or modeling tool does not currently exist,
>there is an
>implementation language that maps surprisingly well to the elements of the
>universal design
>pattern: Ada95. The popular object-oriented language C++, on the other
>hand, performs rather
>poorly when it comes to implementing data flow managers and I/O servers.


Go Ada!





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