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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: An open plea to the W3C (was Re: XInclude vs SAX vs
 Yet by the mid 90s, optimizers for ADA had been shown to create code that ran as fast and as reliably as C. Just as with SGML and now XML++, sharp people carved off the pieces they needed for their projects and made them work locally. What is different in our situation is the size of the locale in which these things must work. Complexity is manageable given willing resources. My sense of the web is that anything very complex will soon encounter and very unwilling set of resources, so the first thing to accept is that nothing universal is achievable for very long. Len http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: Steven R. Newcomb [mailto:srn@c...] About ten years later, another Turing Award Lecturer (don't have time to track down the reference) complained about the complexity of Ada. According to what I recall from reading about it in _Computerworld_ 20 years ago, the complaint was different from Dijkstra's complaint about PL/I (below). The complaint was not so much that programmers couldn't handle Ada's complexity, but that reliably implementing Ada itself was simply out of reach. The speaker worried that missile guidance systems and other weapon systems running real-time Ada programs would misbehave in various unforeseeable ways. He was horrified that the U.S. military was trying to standardize on Ada. 
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