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,e6d1607a5397de6b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "E. Robert Tisdale" Subject: Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry? Date: 2000/11/03 Message-ID: <3A031100.68F2B59@netwood.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 689334953 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <39FDE9E4.35F615A6@netwood.net> <8tv1i6$oif$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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.