From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@nospam.please>
Subject: Re: Ada - buzzword or not? (Was: Ada-Europe 2007 early registration deadline approaching)
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:38:56 +0300
Date: 2007-06-04T16:38:56+03:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <466415b3$0$8389$39db0f71@news.song.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <QVGOJsLl7AZGFA51@phaedsys.demon.co.uk>
Chris Hills wrote:
> I think Ada is less popular than it was (a statement of numerical fact
> not a comment on the language itself) other languages are used more
> often. However Ada still has a very large part of the safety critical
> market. Some areas would use nothing else.
>
> Pascal and Modular 2 are all but defunct. There are too many companies
> with a vested interest in Ada to let it go quietly.
Not only companies -- there are many individuals who use it by
preference (I am one of these) and who maintain its implementations, for
example the GCC/GNAT compiler on various Linux distros (alas I am not
one of these).
I would describe Ada as an industrial strength implementation of the
ideas in Pascal, Modula 2 and CLU, with a strong guiding philosophy but
enough pragmatics to make implementations practical and efficient. The
Ada WikiBook http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:Ada is a good
introduction to the language.
--
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
niklas holsti tidorum fi
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2007-06-04 10:27 ` Ada - buzzword or not? (Was: Ada-Europe 2007 early registration deadline approaching) Jacob Sparre Andersen
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