Re: More Ganssle on Ada

[Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org>]

 
> A win-win situation.

I think it's more of a win-lose situation.

This group has been a friendly and VERY helpful place for me, I don't like being the dark cloud complaining about other people but hopefully a little bit of criticism will move Adacore's management in a better direction and help the language. This is the last time I will post negative comments in this thread.

So yes, if someone said Ada was a drop in replacement for bash, they would lose credibility and consulting would not work.

However in the Erlang example I was trying to show how Ada could compete due to it's strengths.

Furthermore I am angry about the comments regarding the ARM port. I am guesstimating the move towards ARM occurred 10+ years ago but since Adacore's customers have been slow to move towards it, Adacore is just now working on the ARM port. What kind of business logic is this? Everyone in business wants to use their existing infrastructure to make as much move as possible, after all why invest in new infrastructure if there is still tons of money to be made with what you have.

Adacore writes compilers and runtimes, writing an ARM port is already a part of it's core business. There are billions of devices that use ARM, why wait for EXISTING customers to move towards ARM, why didn't management start the ARM port 10 years ago so that they could get NEW customers. Why wait until competing languages have solidified their market-share??

Basically everything I don't like about the Ada world:
1)GPL or proprietary stuffed down my throat(outside GCC)
2)An embedded language that can't be used for embedded design(as in baremetal)

have to do with Adacore's management, not the language itself, which is near perfect.