From: "Terry L. Dunbar" <tld@aie.net>
Subject: Re: Why Ada is Still Unpopular
Date: 1997/11/11
Date: 1997-11-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <346927FC.40F860D@aie.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 01bcee43$55817be0$552e63c3@a1
Pete wrote:
> Having just been told that the Ada cross-compiler that my company purchased
> three years ago is discontinued and will not be supported, I am not
> surprised that Ada is not yet a popular language. I had expected better of
> our 'reputable' supplier but I should have known better and stuck with C!
> With such an unstable supplier-base, users will stick with the lower
> cost/better supported languages.
>
> It looks like Ada will always be on the fringes, kept going by a
> 'specialist' market only until other languages get their act together. A
> shame really because I felt quite optimistic at one point.
>
> PK
What target is being dropped -- there may be other suppliers that are
supporting
the target. Typically, a dropped target is an indication that the subject
supplier was not
doing well in that marketplace where another vendor may be doing quite well --
perhaps
because of a better product. At least for the target of interest.
Terry Dunbar
TLD Systems
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1997-11-11 0:00 ` Why Ada is Still Unpopular - vendors abandon products Larry Kilgallen
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