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,b50bc6538a649497 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Nicolas Brunot Subject: Re: Ada student homework ? Date: 2000/11/10 Message-ID: <3A0C0E6C.C0218812@cadwin.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 692043543 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <3A02CED4.520C2768@brighton.ac.uk> <3A078B6F.D34B024B@erols.com> <8ua3m1$bru$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <3A0916BB.584C6C60@cadwin.com> <3A0952B9.34BE19D1@cadwin.com> <3A0A2E53.DD650D8A@ix.netcom.com> <3A0A6B56.7437E9E7@cadwin.com> <3A0B68EF.A06B276D@ix.netcom.com> <3A0BC243.4A9CFC90@cadwin.com> <3A0C0BEE.347F659C@acm.org> X-Accept-Language: fr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net X-Trace: nnrp1.proxad.net 973868683 212.27.54.217 (Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:04:43 MET) Organization: Guest of ProXad - France MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 16:04:43 MET Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-11-10T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic wrote : > You are correct about the Windows/PC/C situation. While you *can* develop apps in Ada for this platform, > you are swimming against the tide in many respects. The OS interface is C, there are tons of C/C++ oriented > development tools, etc. From a market standpoint, you can't afford to ignore the Windows environment. If > you're going to develop there, you'll have to know C (to some extent) just to use the OS. If you want to > get to market ahead of your competition, you will need all the leverage you can get - which is generally > C/C++ tools. Its hard to fight against that. I would just add that fighting against that is not 'hard'. It simply makes your company disappear in short time. We would like to see more Ada users understand that.