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,da46977c58c329df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-30 18:38:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn4feed!worldnet.att.net!135.173.83.71!wnfilter1!worldnet-localpost!bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C58AE09.7070503@worldnet.att.net> From: Jim Rogers User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011128 Netscape6/6.2.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:37:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.91.238.25 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc06-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1012444672 12.91.238.25 (Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:37:52 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 02:37:52 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19403 Date: 2002-01-31T02:37:52+00:00 List-Id: 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