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,f54972b30834b03d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "E. Robert Tisdale" Subject: Re: Future of Ada? Date: 1999/01/13 Message-ID: <369D3140.434189B5@netwood.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432334424 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <369c6b78.7488219@news.nodak.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@remarQ.com X-Trace: 916271043 UESSDE6ENB721CE75C usenet52.supernews.com Organization: Posted via RemarQ, http://www.remarQ.com - Discussions start here! Mime-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Jim wrote: > I am just wondering what those who frequent > this news group think about the future of Ada. > I've heard a lot of talk that Ada is kind of dying out > and that not even the military is using it any more. > Any comments would be greatly appreciated. There is enormous resistance to Ada in some high performance application domains such as digital signal and image processing. DARPA/ITO sponsored the VSIP Forum http://www.vsip.org/ to develop a standard API for Vector, Signal and Image Processing libraries. They have specified an ANSI C language binding and may eventually specify bindings for other high level programming languages but there doesn't seem to be any interest in doing so at this time. There doesn't appear to be any pressure yet from the US Navy for an Ada language binding and I don't think that there ever will be. Many of the safety features provided by Ada are incorporated into VSIP library functions at compile or link time as options. Bob Tisdale,