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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:06:39 +0100
From: Rico Secada <coolzone@it.dk>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: The future of Ada is at risk
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Date: 2007-12-29T04:06:39+01:00
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I have been doing a lot of research about the usage of Ada, both in
industry and in the Open Source community. I am possible writing a paper
on the issue and needs some constructive criticism. 

I have reached the following conclusions:

1. Many companies are moving away from Ada towards C/C++. Many has
already moved during the past 10 years.

2. Very few projects exists on Sourceforge and Freshmeat compared to
other languages like C++, Java, Python and others.

Only 92 projects on Sourceforge.net and 57 on Freshmeat.net.

3. This is the biggest problem: Ada lacks free support on all
platforms. The GNU GNAT Compiler is the only Open Source compiler, and
it lacks proper support and implementation on a variety of platforms.

The different GNU/Linux implementations of GNAT and the different BSD
implementations seems to miss different aspects making it impossible to
port larger projects without having to buy a proprietary compiler.

My study shows, from searching around different mailing list archives
on GNU/Linux and BSD, that people are very attracted towards Ada, but
because of a poor implementation on different platforms when compared
to C and C++ people stay away and focus on those languages instead.

Problems with GNU GNAT and platform independence seems to be the one
major reason why Ada isn't a moving target.

I would like your comments on this please!

Best regards.

Rico Secada.