Re: Ada student homework ?

[Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote ;

> In article <3A0C0E6C.C0218812@cadwin.com>,
>   Nicolas Brunot <n.brunot@cadwin.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That's wrong as a generalization. We know many Ada users
> who regard Ada as the key to having some chance of producing
> realiable software for the NT environment.

Which is exactly what we've been doing quite successfully for more than
10 years and we intend to to go on  :-)
I don't know a lot of CAD and Oracle applications as complex as ours
entirely written in Ada
The problem is that among Windows programmers (or every other OS
programmers), Ada users are everything but 'many'

Do Ada users want it to remain a confidential language, or do they want
it to be used by many programmers, which means many companies, because
most programmers write softwares because it's their job, and because
they get paid for that by a company. Otherwise, they would do something
else.

Of course in the first case, some people are very proud to be part of an
'elite' and for that it's far easier to stay in his own small world, and
keep it very small, so you have less chance finding stupid people making
better software than you, and achieving things you claim impossible.

But in the second case, you would be more likely to find easily Ada
components and people to develop.


> Most certainly if Nicolas finds that using Ada is making his
> company disappear in short time, he is doing something wrong.
> Either Ada is the wrong choice *for him* or the company or
> development effort is being otherwise mismanaged, but it is
> bogus for him to assume that his experience necessarily
> generalizes to all other companies!

The wrong choice is denying the fact that Windows and moreover C
components are almost everywhere in software world, and that you can't
ignore it.
Please just take the time to read the posts before answering :-)