Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?

[Thomas <thomas@kenshi.dk>]

Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Not many countries build jet airplanes, satellites, or nuclear power
> plants.  These are the countries where you're likely to find the most
> Ada software engineers, because that's where Ada came from.


I personally, from a beginners point of view, find it sad that this very 
competent language seems "stuck" in the world of satellites and nuclear 
power plants.

It should be out there among us "hackers" and "dummies", teaching and 
guiding us into building more solid, secure and maintainable software.

I don't believe the language itself is to blame, as it's not a bit 
harder or more difficult to learn than any other language.

Ada needs LOTS of beginner-friendly tutorials, interesting open source 
projects,  thriving communities and a bunch of people that understands 
that Ada's ability to draw in new users equals its ability to survive. 
If there are no new users coming in (or too few), then Ada usage will 
slowly dwindle and steadily be replaced by Java, C/C++ and, shiver, C#.

Because you CAN build software for nuclear power plants with Java - it 
might not be pretty/easy/maintainable, but if the only programmers you 
can find in the year 2017 are doing Java, then you can be damn well sure 
nuclear power plants will be build using just that.  :)

I'm ranting/rambling now, and I'm completely OT. Sorry about that.

Sincerely,
/Thomas, a happy Ada beginner