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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10fec3,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid10fec3,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 108a70,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108a70,public X-Google-Thread: 111308,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid111308,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,b19fa62fdce575f9 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 108717,ef0074ec236ba6e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid108717,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-22 15:44:54 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!mvb.saic.com!dayuc.dayton.saic.com!hopper.dayton.saic.com!hopperj From: James Hopper Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.programming,comp.lang.c++,comp.object,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle,comp.client-server Subject: Re: Why don't large companies use Ada? Date: 22 Nov 1994 16:43:52 GMT Organization: SAIC Distribution: world Message-ID: <3at748$3bg@dayuc.dayton.saic.com> References: <3aa7jo$7j@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <3ac3sf$4ml@case.cyberspace.com> <3ad1v8$gnf@c2.eunet.co.at> <784995260snz@rippleco.demon.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hopper.dayton.saic.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Nuntius Version 1.3b18_PPC X-XXMessage-ID: X-XXDate: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 15:47:53 GMT Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16891 comp.lang.c:69366 comp.programming:12999 comp.lang.c++:79882 comp.object:17617 comp.databases.sybase:13251 comp.databases.oracle:22579 comp.client-server:6952 Date: 1994-11-22T16:43:52+00:00 List-Id: In article <784995260snz@rippleco.demon.co.uk> Doug Robertson, Doug@rippleco.demon.co.uk writes: >My question is - why do Universities teach Ada - sometimes as >the main language on courses ? >-- >Doug Well i am sure people like Mike Feldman will answer this from the point of view of the educational community, i want to take a shot at it from an industry perspective. one case in point is a couple of years ago i lost my best Ada engineer to NCR (They are headqaurted here in dayton) to do C/C++ commercial development. I asked her what NCR thought of the fact that she was an Ada engineer with NO C/C++ experience at all. She said that they told her they considered her Ada experience a big plus as they associated Ada with Software Engineering. They were more interested in hiring people who understood mature development processes than in hiring coders who could hack out C. This feedback has been passed back a lot from my contacts in the commercial world. So the answer to your question from an industrial perspective is because it teaches you good Software Enginnering practices that are far harder to teach than simple language syntax! best jim Jim Hopper Chief Tech Advisor Systems and Software Technology Division SAIC