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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,be23df8e7e275d73 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-11 13:45:27 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!nntp.abs.net!uunet!dca.uu.net!ash.uu.net!xyzzy!nntp From: James Squire Subject: Re: "is ada dead?" A challenge for all of us? X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pls017031.mw.nos.boeing.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <3B4CB3EC.1FF5B2B2@boeing.com> Sender: nntp@news.boeing.com (Boeing NNTP News Access) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: The Boeing Company X-Accept-Language: en References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:15:40 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en]C-CCK-MCD Boeing Kit (Windows NT 5.0; U) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9833 Date: 2001-07-11T20:15:40+00:00 List-Id: Michael Erdmann wrote: > > Such question is always creating the wish in me > to prove that it is not true, but my experiences > with open source projects for Linux makes it > more and more diffcult to prove this. > > If you look as the open source market which is > mainly driven by the commonly available operating > system (e.g Linux) you will find that C, C++ and a lot > of other lagnuages are mutch more dominant then Ada. > Typical for this situation is e.g. the fact that most > of the Linux distributions claim to support Ada, but > the compiler is in fact NOT part of the distribution. > Or how many applications of a typlical Linux > distribution are written in Ada? I think the answer > is about 0! The question "is Ada dead?" is feeling more and more to me like the wrong question. "Ada" is not a sentient being itself, it is a tool - a means to an end. The better question is: "are WE dead (if the Ada language falls in to disuse)?" And by dead, I don't literally mean the end of life as we know it or anything so melodramatic. I mean as in failure of crucial projects, both from a company's point of view and from a national point of view (for defense-related projects), as well as loss of jobs and livelyhood. The question "is ada dead?" ends up being answered in populist modes rather than strict scientific modes, and for me the answer only matters inasmuch as it relates to what I think is the real question. Just my $0.02 ... -- James Squire Send my Spam to mailto:webmaster@cyberpromo.com MDA^H^H^HBoeing St. Louis http://www.boeing.com Opinions expressed here are my own and NOT my company's ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I don't believe anybody." 'What a wonderful world you live in.' "Yeah, well. The rent is cheap, the pay is decent, and I got to make my own hours." -- Garibaldi and Dr. Franklin, "Hunter, Prey"