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From: Odo_Wolbers@k2.maus.de (Odo Wolbers)
Subject: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/07/20
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s> I work for a **commercial** company in the US and we use Ada for
s> embedded, real time applications.  I am now about to start a couple of
s> new projects and need to decide whether I should continue the use of Ada
s> or move to CC++Java.  Things that worry me are: 
s> 
s> (1) Will the compiler vendors be around in the long run.  
s> 
s> (2)Its already difficult to find Ada programmers and many programmers do
s> not want to work in Ada as it has lower market value. 
s> 
s> (3)My products have a life expectancy of over 10 years and so I need to
s> find people to maintain the code in the long run. 

if somebody really knews how to program he will be able to learn another
language in one or two weeks - to get used to the libraries will take the most
time, depends on how big they are.

There may be differences between programmes of procedural languages (FORTRAN,
C, etc) and AI-oriented lagnuages (LISP, PROLOG).

So don't worry about languages - your problem is, that in the future you will
only find GUI-programmer (for ACCES, WINDOS, EXCEL etc.) than real programmer.

Ciao
Odo

P.S. I've learned programming in 6802-assembler in the late 70th and since then
about 13 other languages (from different Assemblers like IBM 370 to FORTH or
Ada).