Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ...

[Jim Rogers <jimmaureenrogers@worldnet.att.net>]

Comments and articles similar to this appear occasionally.

I like to try to read between the lines and understand the
assumptions being made by the author. In the case of this
article I find one assumption is that people know Ad as
well as C, and have made a conscious decision toward C and
away from Ada. I do not believe this assumption is even
approximately true.

Most of the embedded programmers currently working embedded
software engineers have only heard rumors about Ada. Most
have never used it. Many have never seen it or heard about
it.

C++ has grown because C programmers were convinced it was
really C with a few unimportant differences. In other words,
C++ was designed to fool people into adopting it. The same
cannot be said about Ada.

My contention is that Ada has never slid into oblivion.
In fact, Ada is slowly climbing out of the initial
oblivion into which it was born.

Jim Rogers
Colorado Springs, Colorado USA