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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/07/21
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To: Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu>
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Date: 1997-07-21T00:00:00+00:00
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Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Rakesh says
> 
> <<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 don't think you need to worry about having Ada programmers around to
> maintain your code in ten years. If you are trying to look ahead ten
> years to see what will be the popular language-du-jour in the year 2007,
> I think that is an idle excercise. 

I concurr; he doesn't have a SNOBOL's chance <g> of predicting what
language
 will be top dog in ten years, so he's better off trying to decide what 
language will let him do the best job now.

> Robert Dewar

-- 

                        Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
                        Senior Software SE

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