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: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-09 13:25:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Al Christians Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:30:44 -0700 Organization: Public Property Software Message-ID: <3BC35E74.E9C77736@easystreet.com> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 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 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14084 Date: 2001-10-09T13:30:44-07:00 List-Id: "Robert*@" wrote: > > 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. Might need some kind of mainframe Ada for big IBM machines running the OS's that big commercial IBM mainframe shops usually use to run their COBOL applications. > > 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. Very strange world, indeed. A few years back, when I tried to use the COBOL interface package that came with one Ada 95 compiler, I found that it didn't work. When I tried to figure out why, I found that the source code for the packed decimal features was broken as designed, and that it probably couldn't have worked at all to provide any interface to packed decimal data. This was not a brand new product, and the interface features are frequently mentioned among the major advantages of Ada. But maybe they don't get a lot of use. Maybe they don't get any use. IDK. Al