From: Ken Garlington <garlingtonke@lmtas.lmco.com>
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/28
Date: 1996-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <324D0615.682B@lmtas.lmco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 52gr93$1k2@lex.zippo.com
nasser@apldbio.com wrote:
>
> In article <32498FDD.6F13@lmtas.lmco.com>, Ken says...
> >
> >nasser@apldbio.com wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >The Ada market continues to grow.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I don't see this. Have you looked at the help wanted Ads in the Sunday
> >> papers lately?
> >
> >Have you looked at the national help wanted ads in Aviation Week, even
> >for the commercial software jobs? Lots of Ada in there...
> >
>
> But that's my point. Ada is limited to this small market right now.
> Avionics, real-time embedded defense related software. This market
> itself is important but small compared to the whole universe of software.
Go read the ads in Aviation Week. They aren't limited to real-time embedded defense
software.
If you mean, is Ada used routinely for business systems? Not as much as COBOL.
Numerical algorithms? I suspect FORTRAN still has a lot of fans here. I can't think
of a single language that's dominant in _all_ domains. If that's your definition
of "main stream," then every language is in trouble.
> Ada should be used in other types of applications, but it is not.
However, if you read the information on the Ada servers, you see it is used in many
places other than the narrow field you describe. Avionics and non-avionics,
real-time and non-real-time, embedded and non-embedded, defense and commercial.
The real point is: what is the _perception_ of Ada use? How it's actually used is
less important than how many people out there _know_ about its wide range of uses.
As long as you continue to bemoan the fiction that Ada only gets used for DoD
avionics, you continue to perpetuate the problem.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
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
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington [this message]
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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 Mark Bell
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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