Re: F-22 ADA Programming

[brbarkstrom@gmail.com]

On Monday, October 27, 2014 12:34:28 PM UTC-4, David Botton wrote:
> > But maybe after David is done working on GNOGA, he'll be able to build a time machine using Ada, and then we can fix the problem.
> 
> Won't have time, too many people will be using Ada and asking for more features for their cool new projects for me to take time to work on has been situations.
> 
> David Botton

While the discussion has some interest, I haven't seen anything more than
opinion.  In marketing terms, we need empirical studies of the sources of
"market friction" that impedes adoption of Ada.  The economics of Ada 
programmers and of career switching certainly seem like sensible rationales.
However, maybe there's a perception that all Ada is good for is building
weapons systems or heart monitors.  What new business opportunities do we
have to offer.  Personally, I'll suggest long-term information preservation
of scientific data for citizen science.  Can we interest science prone
individuals (a distinctive market segment that includes about 2% of the
population) in building ultra-low maintenance archives that could thrive
because the amount of maintenance is measured in a small number of person-hours
per month, rather than daily updates that require a system administrator?
Could we interest people in building bare bones systems that could collect
data in an untended state?  Would this kind of project be of interest to
community college computer science teachers - particularly since that might
increase the pool of CS people trained in Ada?  What other markets might
we think of that offer opportunities outside of the historical core of Ada?

Bruce B.