From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,fcc4a22d6dda142f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Stanley R. Allen" Subject: Re: Regarding Microtec Date: 1998/02/25 Message-ID: <34F493F9.167E@hso.link.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 328637918 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <6cuv9l$8vo$1@gte1.gte.net> To: Rakesh Malhotra Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NASA, Kennedy Space Center Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-02-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Rakesh Malhotra wrote: > > Dear Editor > > One thing interesting (and disappointing to me) in the article is the > lack of any mention of Ada at all. I've noticed that most information about Ada in EETimes is generally written by someone with no knowledge of the language. The last article I remember about Ada in EETimes was called "Ada finds new life riding a Java wave" -- describing the Ada-to-JVM translation technology. It was such a sloppy job I was surprised that no one complained; also, as you can tell by the article title, the assumption was generally that Ada was/is "dead". This is a common assumption in the pop computer literature. Case in point, the latest issue of RTC magazine (Feb 1998), pg 93 has a notice announcing the recent validation of the new Green Hills Ada compilers, prefixed with the slightly astonished observation that "ADA [sic] still takes its share of high reliability software projects." > As an aside: I do not know if this is an EE Times policy but I do not > normally find mention of Ada based projects in your pages. There is a > lot of mention of C, C++, Embedded C++ and Java. Y'know, the funny thing is that in practically every issue of EETimes there are a number of Ada employment opportunities advertised in the back pages. Apparently employers know they can reach Ada developers through EETimes. A lot of the articles you see in these kind of magazines are written by people trying to sell the products being described in the articles and sold on the opposite page. If Ada vendors advertised in these rags, the editors would welcome articles written by Ada vendors. Another way to get articles into magazines like this is to submit them yourself. Richard Riehle does this kind of thing often, and has made a point of telling others in the Ada community how easy it is to do. Editors are always looking for interesting material, and usually are facing an unforgiving deadline; a half-way decent article describing an interesting technology or project which uses Ada may be just the thing to the editor needs to fill up a few proof sheets for the next issue. I like Richard Riehle's approach: just do it, and assume that nothing should stand in your way. I hope to imitate him some day soon by writing the first Ada article in Linux Journal, as long as one of you out there doesn't (or hasn't) beat me to the punch! -- Stanley Allen mailto:s_allen@hso.link.com