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From: Stanley Allen <sallen@ghgcorp.com>
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/07/18
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Date: 1997-07-18T00:00:00+00:00
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Rakesh Malhotra wrote:
> 
> 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 ?
> 
>  [slice]
> 
> 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.
> 

Worries #1 and #3 would also be facing you if you choose C++ or Java.

Worry #2 is intersting ... are you accepting resumes?  I think a
lot of Ada programmers would love to build commercial real-time
embedded systems.

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Stanley Allen
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