From: Dave Wood <dpw@thomsoft.com>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/22
Date: 1996-09-22T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3245AFBF.3E28@thomsoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com
> Greg A Barnett <barnett@bright.net> wrote in article
> <324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net>...
> > They claim
> > that since the DoD is abandoning Ada (their words, not mine) and since
> > there is very little commercial use of Ada in the US (again their
> > words), Ada is a dead language that won't be around in 5-10 years.
"Commercial use" is a very broad category. In some segments, Ada
is well used, in others it is a tiny niche in the US. In any event,
Ada is a long way from being dead. She's had a pretty bad head
cold for the past couple of years, but she's now feeling much better
and ready to go back to work.
In fact, we've noted an increasing trend in people looking to move
*from* C++ *to* Ada 95. Right now, I would consider this to be
essentially anecdotal because at this point only a few true Ada 95
compilers have hit the market. An evaluation at this time next
year would provide a much more reliable barometer of the long-term
prospects for Ada, in my opinion, both because there will be more
Ada 95 compilers available, and because the ones currently
available will have been around longer.
-- Dave Wood
-- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows
-- Thomson Software Products
-- http://www.thomsoft.com
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1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-22 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-24 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Uri Raz
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
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1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood [this message]
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
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1996-09-21 0:00 DeanNelson
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-24 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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