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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d51051a623c1e2d0,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Sam Harbaugh: Palm Bay, Florida" Subject: Re: decline of Ada? Date: 1996/11/12 Message-ID: <199611121040.FAA16264@bb.iu.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 196305414 sender: Ada programming language x-sender: harbaugh@iu.net comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU content-type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.2 Date: 1996-11-12T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: >Date: Thu, 7 Nov 1996 20:17:32 GMT >From: Jon S Anthony >Subject: Re: decline of Ada? >Could be, but really, Ada has to make it in the commercial market >independent of so called "mandates" (which were never enforced >anyway). So, this could actually be a _good_ thing for Ada - the less >association with the government the better :-) I am told that Oracle says that in two years Java will be the standard data base language (rather than SQL). Of course Microsoft may say otherwise. I am also told that Oracle had 15,000 attendees at Mosconi Center in San Francisco at last week's Oracle World (or whatever they called it). Compare this with Tri-Ada attendance. There are technical and cultural reasons* why Java is the current emerging commercial language. These same reasons preclude Ada from that area. I guess that in 20 years there will be technical and cultural reasons why Java will have plateaued (is there such a word?) and another language is taking its place. >Part of the problem is that the DoD never really gave Ada much support >yet tainted it's image by associating it with "the government". In my opinion it is not a "problem", just a "situation". In my opinion the DoD gave Ada a GREAT DEAL of support. How could they not associate it with the Government, they are a part of the Government? The DoD had Ada built to specification to solve their problem, not the problems of the commercial sector. *ask me and i'll say what i think the reasons are. my 2 cents worth sam harbaugh palm bay, florida