Re: Why Ada is Still Unpopular - vendors abandon products

Re: Why Ada is Still Unpopular - vendors abandon products

[Larry Kilgallen]

In article <01bcee43$55817be0$552e63c3@a1>, "Pete" <budmanpete@btinternet.com> writes:
> 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.

Many things distinguish Ada from C, but vendors abandoning products
is not one of them.

Larry Kilgallen

Re: Why Ada is Still Unpopular

[Terry L. Dunbar]

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