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,LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 09:14:47 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newsfeed1.cidera.com!Cidera!cyclone1.gnilink.net!wn3feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC3202E.67704A66@worldnet.att.net> From: James Rogers X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? References: <3BC0B670.4B68D8DC@acm.org> <3BC23B9F.3B025363@pea.dk> <05Dw7.21484$ev2.29726@www.newsranger.com> <9pv2qu0kdo@drn.newsguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:05:04 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.86.32.113 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1002643504 12.86.32.113 (Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:05:04 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 16:05:04 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14045 Date: 2001-10-09T16:05:04+00:00 List-Id: "Robert*@" wrote: > > In article <05Dw7.21484$ev2.29726@www.newsranger.com>, Ted says... > > > > >Here are some statistics to put it in perspective: > >* COBOL is used in *60-70 percent* of business applications. > >* There are *80-100 billion* lines of COBOL code in active use. > >* *Two billion* new lines of COBOL code are developed each year. > >* *One million* programmers use COBOL. > >--- > > Ada makes a perfect replacment for COBOL. > > If we can target COBOL programmers (instead of the C/C++/Java ones), we > will win in the end. > > I find it very strange that Ada is not used much in business applications, and > more strange it is not used much in financial applications. people will actually > use C to divid numbers and compute decimals and not Ada. very strange world > we live in. I have always thought that a company's accounting system was mission critical. Safety and correctness must be the higest priorities for those systems. Ada should certainly be considered in those cases. The biggest problem is that traditional IT departments have never even heard of Ada. It is not one of the technologies common to their mainframe environment. Jim Rogers Colorado Springs, Colorado USA