From: Tucker Taft <stt@averstar.com>
Subject: Re: Writing Book, Need Ada Ammunition
Date: 1999/07/23
Date: 1999-07-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3798F299.25A647E9@averstar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: FF89y7.Cq6@tiamet.vaxxine.com
Ken O. Burtch wrote:
>
> I'm working on a book on Linux programming using Ada 95 and the gnat
> compiler. The book company I'm speaking with doesn't have a problem
> publishing a Linux book, but they feel that Ada is a "declining language"
> that nobody is interested in and that has no future.
Ada is doing just fine. It doesn't have a hype engine.
However, if you look at which 3rd-generation languages are
actually being used to build *real* production quality high-performance
software in any volume, Ada is one of the top five languages.
In the embedded, real-time, or safety-critical world, it is
probably in the top three. Java is still not a high-performance
language (and certainly not a safety-critical one), and once you
get past C/C++, Ada is the primary alternative. Go to any book store,
and you will see that Ada books outnumber those for all 3rd generation
languages other than Java and C/C++ (although with Y2K, there has been a
resurgence in Cobol books ;-).
> I'm look for any surveys/stats/personal testimonies you can give me to
> support the idea that in general Ada is not a "declining language". For
> example, anything about educational institutions using Ada, words from
> authors who have published Ada books, and the value of Ada against popular
> languages. That sort of thing.
>
> I've already visited www.adahome.com. Any further support would be
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
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-Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/
Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools)
AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-07-21 0:00 Writing Book, Need Ada Ammunition Ken O. Burtch
1999-07-21 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-21 0:00 ` Martin C. Carlisle
1999-07-21 0:00 ` jerry
1999-07-22 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-22 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-07-24 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-07-23 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1999-07-26 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-07-26 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-07-26 0:00 ` Ken O. Burtch
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