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: 103376,3a4656a5edc0dab4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: controlnews3.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c03.atl99!c01.usenetserver.com!news.usenetserver.com!elnk-atl-nf1!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net.POSTED!d9c68f36!not-for-mail Message-ID: <40A36574.2070707@noplace.com> From: Marin David Condic User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 (OEM-HPQ-PRS1C03) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications? References: <409F69CB.8020604@noplace.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:09:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.165.0.222 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net 1084450186 209.165.0.222 (Thu, 13 May 2004 05:09:46 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 05:09:46 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Xref: controlnews3.google.com comp.lang.ada:537 Date: 2004-05-13T12:09:46+00:00 List-Id: Exactly. If you want a job programming in Ada, you've got to build it for yourself. I've always been willing to entertain ideas about commercial products that might be built as a garage-venture - but the product itself has to have a perceived market and become a successful revenue generator. That won't happen just because it was programmed in Ada. But if the enthusiasts put their minds to it and dream up a useful application where the strengths of Ada might provides some competitive advantage, that will start making the "Ada Ressurection" come about. It *must* generate revenue or its just a hobby. Hobbies don't tend to keep language vendors and languages alive. Or is that all Ada aspires to? MDC Richard Riehle wrote: > > The Ada enthusiast at LM is not going to persuade the new manager > who prefers C++ of the benefits of Ada. The Ada expert who did > so well on his last project at Raytheon will not turn the tide back > toward Ada when so many there have lost sight of why it was a > good idea for earlier systems. The only hope is for those experts > to identify an marketing opportunity (even band together) and use > Ada for a new product. Give up the security of you Boeing > pension, your LM health benefits, and launch a new product > using Ada. Put you belief in Ada to the test. That is the only > way Ada will survive over the next five or ten years. > -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/NSFrames.htm Send Replies To: m o d c @ a m o g c n i c . r "Face it ladies, its not the dress that makes you look fat. Its the FAT that makes you look fat." -- Al Bundy ======================================================================