From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,MSGID_SHORT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 7 May 93 02:17:39 GMT From: fedfil!news@uunet.uu.net (news) Subject: Re: Survey shows Ada not popular??? Message-ID: <481@fedfil.UUCP> List-Id: In article <1993May5.212434.13986@newshost.lanl.gov>, hines@paloverde.lanl.gov (Donn Hines) writes: * *In article 4t2@world.std.com, srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) writes : *> The May 1993 issue of Software Magazine, page 45, has an article on *>4GLs. In the article is a table that has the survey results from a survey *>done by Sentry Market Research in which they asked corporate users which *>language they would use after reengineering or reverse engineering their *>existing systems. Here are the results: *> *> Cobol 37% *> 4GLs 20% *> C++ 16% *> C 15% *> Other 11% *> Ada 5% *> Smalltalk 3% *> Basic 2% *> Fortran 2% My choice would be, more or less: OPAL for the 80% of applications involving databases C/C++ along with something like Protogen for most other applications Assembler in extreme circumstances. A recent InfoWorld article mentioned the problems involved in retraining/ retreading Cobol "programmers"... same goes double for "Ada programmers/ software engineers". * *This "survey" simply represents what people are comfortable with. If I have a system *that is doing the job I want it to, why would I want to go to the tremendous *expense and hassles involved in retraining my people and moving to a language I *know little or nothing about? Is it any suprise to anyone that in surveying *businesses, Cobol and databases get the majority of votes? It's what they are *used to. * *I only hope Ada doesn't go the way of the Beta format for VCRs. Beta was the *clear quality winner, yet VHS won. Uh-oh. Another thread? Or has this been has hed *before: Ada <-> Beta analogies. Hey! It even rhymes. Excuse me, I better go ge t *this copyrighted. ;-) * Don't worry about Ada going the way of Betamax; it's going the way of the Edsel. -- Ted Holden HTE