kent@xanth.UUCP (01/01/70)
In article <389@trwspf.TRW.COM> dragon@trwspf.UUCP (Roger Vossler) writes: >In article <2176@xanth.UUCP> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes: >* [stuff of mine you've already seen twice] >Although we are a large defense contractor and are using Ada, members of >my group have used Modula-2 very successfully on a number of efforts >internally. Modula-2 makes a very nice, small, cheap, fast, and powerful >subset of Ada, particularly, when we have to pay for it out of our own >pockets. 8-) Taxpayers may not be too concerned about how their money is >spent, but stockholders are less charitable. >-- >-- Roger Vossler Just to argue with my own previous posting ( a different one ), it seems to me that since Modula II successfully incorporates a lot of the same software engineering concepts as Ada(tm) and is a lot cheaper for the home user and a lot easier to learn for almost everyone ( so I've heard, my OXXI BENCHMARK compiler hasn't arrived yet, darn it! ), it seems to me that a machine translation from Modula II to Ada could be a pretty big win as a commercial and home product. Comments? Kent, the man from xanth.