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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,fa07350fd81f7563 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,80e8e0df8032d89e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,fa07350fd81f7563 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-26 02:17:25 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c++,comp.object Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!ajpo.sei.cmu.edu!riehler From: riehler@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Richard Riehle) Subject: Re: Is C/C++ the future? Message-ID: <1994Oct25.231342.21738@sei.cmu.edu> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering, Palo Alto, CA References: <388a97$en1@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> <1994Oct25.004017.20053@den.mmc.com> <38jhj0$ec4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 23:13:42 EDT Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16191 comp.lang.c++:76013 comp.object:16613 Date: 1994-10-25T23:13:42-04:00 List-Id: In article <38jhj0$ec4@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >In article <1994Oct25.004017.20053@den.mmc.com>, >Robert Monical wrote: >> RM>>How about all those unemployed Ada programmers RM>>who used to work DoD related? Will they start RM>>moving the commercial world to Ada? MF>Gosh, I hope so! :-) Actually, some are moving to projects elsewhere in other U.S. government agencies. For example, Department of Energy is now using Ada for some projects. A few other agencies are also evaluating it. I have been encountering more former DoD programmers who are using Ada to build commercial software products. At least one of them, I see, is an occasional contributor to this forum. And when the C++ programmers begin to discover Ada 9X, there ought to be a massive migration to Ada. The more I look at Ada 9X, the more I realize just how excellent it is. Ada is not the language of the future, but it is a language of the future. C++ is not the language of the future, but it is also a language of the future. There is no single language of the future, probably not even Eiffel, as good as that language may be. Richard Riehle AdaWorks Software Engineering Suite 27 2555 Park Boulevard Palo Alto, CA 94306 (415) 328-1815 FAX 328-1112 email: adaworks@netcom.com