From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f05f6c2ca4c91ddd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ken Garlington Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada Date: 1996/09/28 Message-ID: <324D0615.682B@lmtas.lmco.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185848354 references: <324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net> <524sb9$t5g@lex.zippo.com> <32498FDD.6F13@lmtas.lmco.com> <52gr93$1k2@lex.zippo.com> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Macintosh; I; 68K) Date: 1996-09-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- LMTAS - "Our Brand Means Quality"