From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,93a8020cc980d113 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!newshub.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xt-sjc-03!sn-xt-sjc-06!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Jason King Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada? Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:21:08 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <131pv6rmhhj51be@corp.supernews.com> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1176150704.130880.248080@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: <1176150704.130880.248080@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14912 Date: 2007-04-11T10:21:08-05:00 List-Id: I'm an MIS guy not a CS guy and this is my take. If I have a business task to accomplish I'm looking for the tool or set of tools that will get my task accomplished quickly and the solution be maintainable. We don't use c/c++ at our shop because its difficult to get the task accomplished quickly so we look to other tools. As we survey the landscape we see vb, delphi, ada, java etc. Initially ada looks very attractive because we're an Oracle shop and pl/sql (the stored procedure/trigger language inside the Oracle db) is based on ada-83. Then we look for database access, tools to build client guis and tools to build web applications. The tools available are substantially inferior in number and outside documentation to the ones available for java. Then the bosses look around to see how hard it is to hire new people for the shop as our client list expands. There aren't a whole bunch of ada developers out there but there are schools on several continents churning out armies of java developers. Maybe the one ada developer is more productive than 1.5 or even two java developers but when we have to overcome the lack of tools + the lack of developers that makes us look other places. In a world where we could search Amazon and find as many ada books as java books or get as many cvs with ada experience as java experience then ada would be an obvious choice. In the world as it exists the availability of support materials and experienced developers outweighs the technical merits of ada. martinbishop wrote: > I've never been scared of "non mainstream" languages, but I was > wondering, what is wrong with Ada? Why don't more people use it? > What > do most people think of it? To me, it seems like a nice, concise, and > safe language, but I haven't used it yet. >