From: steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: Can Ada by popularized faster ?
Date: 1997/10/12
Date: 1997-10-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <344125b5.0@news.pacifier.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 343D1DD8.B60A668A@kaiwan.com
IMHO Ada is just now becoming 'ripe' for common consumption. The Ada
programming language has been there for quite some time, but the development
environments have been behind.
When a decent debugger gets added to these environments, and a complete GUI
builder that doesn't make you feel like you're crippled when compared to
Delphi or Visual BASIC, then I will consider Ada to be in a position to
compete directly with the more popular environments.
As a programming language I believe that Ada is superior to C, C++, and Delphi
Pascal, but the development envrionment is still playing catch-up. But it's
very close now. Maybe with the next ObjectAda release?
When this happens, we won't need campaigns to help popularize Ada... it will
come naturally.
The trick is making it so that there are no big reasons for not using Ada,
which I believe will happen soon.
SteveD
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1997-10-09 0:00 Can Ada by popularized faster ? safetran
1997-10-10 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-10-10 0:00 ` No Spam
1997-10-10 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-10-16 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1997-10-10 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-10-12 0:00 ` Steve Doiel [this message]
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Andrzej Lewandowski
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1997-10-13 0:00 Peter Hermann
1997-10-13 0:00 ` the_walrus
1997-10-13 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-10-13 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-10-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-10-14 0:00 ` Paul H. Whittington
1997-10-16 0:00 William A Whitaker
1997-10-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1997-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Elmore
1997-10-30 0:00 ` TConiam
1997-10-31 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-10-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1997-10-26 0:00 ` John Black
1997-10-27 0:00 ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-10-28 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
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