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-Thread: 103376,c1400b61b3f80c1e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!193.252.118.146.MISMATCH!news.wanadoo.fr!news.wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail Message-ID: <47E0290D.7080201@obry.net> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:41:49 +0100 From: Pascal Obry Organization: Home - http://www.obry.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (Windows/20080213) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada To: Mike Silva Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Mar 2008 21:41:51 CET NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.249.125.109 X-Trace: 1205872911 news.orange.fr 902 81.249.125.109:2077 X-Complaints-To: abuse@orange.fr Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20471 Date: 2008-03-18T21:41:51+01:00 List-Id: Mike Silva a �crit : > Some comments about Ada in the UK made me wonder about this. Are > there countries where the programming and/or management culture seems > to be more accepting of Ada? Are there Ada "hotbeds" about in the > world? And if so, what accounts for the differences? My experience is that in France it is not taken seriously in most companies outside the avionic domain. For managers Ada is a dead language probably because they read in "highly-technical-oriented-magazines" that Java this, Java that, Java there and Java everywhere ! My experience at least. Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://www.obry.net --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination" --| --| gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key C1082595