Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada?

[Marin David Condic <nobody@noplace.com>]

Can you blame them? They have a payroll to meet and investor's money to 
protect. Unless they're seeing gobs of Ada business coming out of their 
ears, they would be foolish not to diversify some to protect jobs and 
the ongoing business.

If we want to help Ada succeed and thus help insure a market for the 
vendors and a market for those of us wishing to use Ada in our jobs, 
then we need to a) work to give Ada more capabilities/power right out of 
the box and b) build as many important applications as possible in Ada. 
I think a good place to start would be to get a common library 
built/adopted for Ada that is distributed with most implementations. To 
further the second goal, creative Ada fans should look to develop common 
business or home applications in Ada and look to commercialize them. 
(How are you going to create business for the vendors and jobs for the 
techies unless you have some successful business of your own that 
utilizes Ada?) Both of those areas could be addressed and Ada would benefit.

MDC



Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:
> 
> What worries me is the perceived trend of all Ada vendors in
> their hedging of their bets into other services and products. What
> could happen, is that Ada ends up dropping off of the supported
> list at some point, due to general lack of demand.
> 

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