Why I use Ada

1. The joy of creating things
2. The pleasure of making things that are useful to others
3. Fascination of fashioning complex puzzle-like objects
4. Joy of learning
5. The delight of a tactable medium

Why I program in Ada based on "The Woes of the Craft" from p. 8 of The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

1. One must perform perfectly - Ada was human designed to avoid human error
2. Dependence on others - Ada's use of packages specs leads to better documentation and specification of behavior
3. Designing grand concepts is fun; finding nity little bugs is just work - Ada provides standard packages and the language has advanced concepts like tasking and protected types built in.
4. Debugging has a linear convergence, so testing drags on and on - Ada's strong typing and language design helps to insure that if it compiles, it will run.
5. The product you are working on now is obsolete upon completion - Ada's ability to interface to other languages and its remarkable ability to make reuse reality insure that today's efforts are tomorrow's stepping stones.