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From: Gordon Dodrill <gjdodri@sandia.gov>
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/12
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Gordon Dodrill wrote:

   [snip]
> I am obviously frustrated.  How can I continue to promote
> the use of Ada when the numbers mentioned in the first two
> paragraphs above indicate a lack of growth in Ada compared
> to the other languages?  Any thoughts, either positive or
> negative, will be appreciated.

I want to thank you for all of the responses to my request.

As expected, there is a lot of support for the use of Ada in
this newsgroup.  I agree that a good programmer can learn the
essentials of any language rather quickly so that the 
availability of maintenance programmers is not a real issue.
However, we are still forced to go with the project leader's
decision.

Even though the larger project has dropped Ada, there is a 
smaller (about 5 persons) project that is still committed to 
the use of Ada.  About 70% of my time is commited to this 
project, so we still have a foot in the door for the future, 
and I will continue to campaign for Ada.

Thank you for clearing up the fact that the $100M figure was
the total for the development of Ada tools, and does not 
include developers time.

Gordon Dodrill
Sandia National Laboratories - Albuquerque, New Mexico