From: paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!sgiblab!sgigate!odin!davemc@uunet.uu .net (David McAllister)
Subject: Re: Ada fairs poorly in CASE market survey
Date: 15 Jan 93 17:11:44 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1993Jan15.171144.26311@odin.corp.sgi.com> (raw)
In article <SRCTRAN.93Jan14232941@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory
Aharonian) writes:
> The January 1993 issue of Software Magazine has a lengthy article on
>software reusability (pages 86-92). On page 88 there is a table of the
>results of a survey by Sentry Market Research titled:
>
> "Development Language Preferences among CASE buyers"
>
>with the following results:
>
> 1991 1992
>
> Cobol 41% 38%
> C 18% 16%
> 4GL 15% 13%
> Other 13% 16%
> Fortran 5% 4%
> C++ 4% 4%
> Other OOs 3% 4%
> Ada 2% 4%
>
> These results pretty much reflect similar surveys, such as language
>presence at trade shows, language requirements in help wanted ads, and softwar
e
>tools and libraries sold commercially.
>
> To base this nation's software defense policies on a mandated language,
>when neither the DoD, its contractors or Ada compiler vendors care enough to
>foster interest and demand in the non-mandated world, is criminal, as their
>inactions undermine the ability of the free markets to provide Ada supply to
>meet defense needs. This continuing niche status of Ada will drive up the
>cost of Ada tools and programmers, driving up the costs of developing defense
>software systems.
>
>Greg Aharonian
>Source Translation & Optimization
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>Greg Aharonian
>Source Translation & Optimiztion
>P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178
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