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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Marco Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:36:23 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <484648bb-e3be-47cf-9619-4c8fff8edbda@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@googlegroups.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 184.99.182.128 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1301056586 27933 127.0.0.1 (25 Mar 2011 12:36:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:36:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Maciej Sobczak In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=184.99.182.128; posting-account=WITAxQkAAAAHjnLda9Lofpqp8mERTWL4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:18440 Date: 2011-03-25T05:36:23-07:00 List-Id: On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 1:58:47 AM UTC-7, Maciej Sobczak wrote: > Three things: > > 1. Knowledge. Most companies do not even know that Ada exists > (really!). I agree most folks think it is dead or dying. > 2. Availability of resource. This is not about people on the job > market that are waiting to be employed, but about people that are > already working for the company - are they willing to learn Ada? No - paid professionals learn whatever language is needed. > > 3. Availability of reasonably robust and up to date compilers. > Unfortunately things are very bad for Ada in this regard - compilers > are either bug-ridden or outdated. Disagree - overpriced yes but there are good number of Ada 95 vendors out there with reasonably good products - Ada 2005 is similar to the C99 situation (new features that most compiler vendors won't implement)