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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92c39a3be0a7f17d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-09 12:12:14 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!hub1.nntpserver.com!beamish.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsfeed0.news.atl.earthlink.net!news.atl.earthlink.net!news.mindspring.net!not-for-mail From: Richard Riehle Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Future with Ada Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2002 12:19:19 -0800 Organization: AdaWorks Software Engineering Message-ID: <3C8A6E47.DCF9A1B0@adaworks.com> References: <3wdH7.20135$xS6.32614@www.newsranger.com> <9tqete0gqc@drn.newsguy.com> <3C0924D6.2B5A3087@adaworks.com> <250220022121494455%thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com> Reply-To: richard@adaworks.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 9e.fc.c4.11 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 9 Mar 2002 20:16:12 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20987 Date: 2002-03-09T20:16:12+00:00 List-Id: Michael Card wrote: > RE: Richard's & Ben's comments about a shortage of ada programmers: Some readers might be interested in this story. On Friday, one of my former students, a Naval officer, dropped by my office for a few minutes. He is now with the Fleet as an EDO (engineering duty officer). In the Ada class he took, we studied several options for creating GUI applications using GtkAda, CLAW, and JEWL, among others. His reason for dropping by was to let me know he has had the opportunity to write a lot of small applications at his current duty station using Ada. If you are paying attention, John English, he found your JEWL packages easy to use and at the right level of simplicity for what he needed to do. I have suggested to him that he acquire a copy of CLAW for doing more robust applications, and I think he will look into getting funds for a CLAW license. He is one of those very bright officers who will, if he has his way, infect the rest of his organization with a zeal for Ada. The problem he will face is the naysayers who outrank him and know little about the value of Ada -- those who still believe Java is such a great idea, for example. Richard Riehle