Is Ada likely to survive ?

[safetran <safetran@kaiwan.com>]

Hi all 

I am looking for opinions on whether you think the Ada language is going
to be around in the next 5 years ?  How about 10 years ? 

I appreciate that with the over 50 million lines of US DOD Ada code that
exist and the numerous other Ada projects around the world,  Ada will be
around for quite a while (to maintain all this code).   However, I am
looking at it more from the point of view of new projects. 

I work for a **commercial** company in the US and we use Ada for
embedded, real time applications.  I am now about to start a couple of
new projects and need to decide whether I should continue the use of Ada
or move to C/C++/Java.  Things that worry me are: 

(1) Will the compiler vendors be around in the long run.  

(2)Its already difficult to find Ada programmers and many programmers do
not want to work in Ada as it has lower market value. 

(3)My products have a life expectancy of over 10 years and so I need to
find people to maintain the code in the long run. 

Note:  I have been using Ada for over 7 years and so am quite aware of
its benefits and don't need to be convinced [I also program in C/C++ :)] 
--
Rakesh 
Rakesh.Malhotra@Safetran.com