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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
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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 for one, would like to see that change. One feature that would help, (as I

posted earlier), would be garbage collection. The language also needs a
simple to use database "binding", and a similar score for GUI forms. A good
IDE would go a long way in this direction, but I think there is also a
good argument for an interpreted Ada "subsystem" for business/SOHO use.

The important issues for business use is that you need to keep things as
simple as possible, so that programmers can focus on the business processes
instead of the science(s).
-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
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