Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?

["E. Robert Tisdale" <edwin@netwood.net>]

mark_lundquist@my-deja.com wrote:

> I think COTS is a natural area to focus on for growing the Ada market.

Perhaps.
But Ada programmers don't appear to be interested.
No Ada programmers have expressed an interest
in an Ada language binding for the VSIPL API standard.
I don't think that a single Ada programmer has ever participated
in the discussion on the VSIPL Form web page

    http://www.vsipl.org/

Ada programmers don't appear to be much interested
in numerical computing at all.
I don't think that anyone uses Ada for numerical computing anymore.
There are, at best, only some adapter interfaces
for numerical libraries written in Fortran and/or C.
I think that many people in the military believe that
they have been abandoned by the Ada community.
They have kept a candle in the window for decades now
and I don't think that you can blame them for being distracted
by more enthusiastic C and C++ programmers.
Ada has been given up for dead.