Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ...

[Adrian Hoe <byhoe@greenlime.com>]

David Gillon wrote:
> 
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> 
> > I suspect the numbers cited in
> > the article are pretty close to reality for embedded systems. Maybe its
> > really 4% instead of 2% of embedded development going on in Ada. Maybe the
> > 2% consists of really big important projects and the 98% are much smaller
> > software efforts.
> 
> I suspect this may be the case. A more interesting set of figures (ok,
> more flattering to Ada) might be man years of effort, or project value.
> 1 Ada box going into F-22, 777 or whatever will likely take considerably
> more effort and earn more value than a dozen C boxes running
> air-conditioning systems.
> 
> > Ada is just a small sliver of the embedded market and almost
> > nonexistant outside of DoD embedded work.
> 
> DoD aren't the only defence ministry out there! OTOH it would be foolish
> to deny that defence work is still the backbone of Ada effort.


Right. Ada is still pretty much under the umbrella of defence. Ada is
unlikely to strive in general computing sector until the "general
public" shed off the defence relationship of Ada.


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> David Gillon

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