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From: Jeff Carter <spam.carter.not@spam.innocon.com>
Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best*
Date: 1998/12/07
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Rick Thorne wrote:
> 
> Roga Danar wrote:
>
> ... 
> 
> >  If you have any statistics on the "rotting" of Ada I would love to see them.
> 
> *contemptuous chuckle*
> 
> 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++.  What statistical
> sampling do I need other than this?  Yup, Ada IS a great language.  I
> agree.  The Edsel was a great car, too.  How many people do you seeing
> driving them, let alone BUYING them?
> 

I hate to tell you this, but the next time you fly in a modern airliner,
the fly-by-wire software controlling it was written in Ada. Most of the
air-traffic-control software in the world, including growing parts in
the USA, is written in Ada. Your life depends on a rotting language.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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