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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best* Date: 1998/12/03 Message-ID: <3666F5A4.2CCF6592@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 418336656 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: To: rick.thorne@lmco.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: Universite de Neuchatel MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > > If you have any statistics on the "rotting" of Ada I would love to see them. > Why don't you read your Sunday paper, friend? Check out the want ads. MY > "statistical" survery tells me this: for every Ada job opening there are > literally - LITERALLY - dozens for Java and C++. For every job opening for high-quality restaurants there are dozen for McDonalds. Will you conclude high-quality restaurants are disappearing ? Of course, the computing world loves convergence to standards (C++, Windows). It's a good thing. Why does Ada still exists, then ? Why are Ada95 compilers beeing developed ? It's surely because of some advantages. E.g: - the most bugs are found at compile time in Ada (a fraction of a second) and during debugging sessions in Fortran, C, C++ (it may take hours); - an Ada source is easy to read. The bad point for Ada is that these two advantages concerns a small part of software industry. - it's a threat for a programmer hired by a company: an Ada program is too early finished and debugged; once the guy has been sacked, the source can be maintained and reworked without him! - since the main stream software industry lives from selling buggy updates to buggy programs, Ada is absolutely not the language to use ;-) ! -- Gautier