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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,53c5fea49e77990c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-31 11:13:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.airnews.net!cabal11.airnews.net!207.136.1.12.MISMATCH!cabal1.airnews.net!news-f.iadfw.net!usenet From: "John R. Strohm" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Dot Net ? Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2002 12:47:17 -0800 Organization: Airnews.net! at Internet America Message-ID: <4EA74814C3B4C62E.64366D18C414EEFA.75BD2A28800DF494@lp.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: References: Abuse-Reports-To: abuse at airmail.net to report improper postings NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library2.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Time: Sun Mar 31 13:12:28 2002 NNTP-Posting-Host: !^$r<1k-X"r,G/L (Encoded at Airnews!) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21925 Date: 2002-03-31T12:47:17-08:00 List-Id: For test equipment, using fancy I/O cards, you need to be looking at other things besides general-purpose programming languages, with or without GUI toolkits. Specifically, you need to be looking REAL HARD at National Instruments down in Austin, with their LabView and LabWindows tools (as I recall). They are about as far ahead of MSVC++ as MSVC++ is ahead of the various PC native Ada compilers. "William J. Thomas" wrote in message news:uadamv9fot6vda@corp.supernews.com... > The company I work for is undergoing a serious process improvement effort, > we are standardizing on a great many things (thank God one of the things is > Ada95 for embedded systems, C comes in a rare second and only when Ada is > not available). We are also trying to standardize on the languages used for > future test equipment software development (this type of software is GUI > intensive, and makes extensive use of fancy I/O cards). > > Many of the software engineers involved in the standardization effort would > love to use Ada even for this class of applications, but when push comes to > shove Ada can't hold a candle to any of the other languages coupled with > their GUI environments. The MS Visual Studio supported languages can't be > beat for their level of integration into the underlying OS and almost every > I/O board on the market comes with drivers/APIs for their products. > > You can't ask an Ada zealot (in his right mind) to strap on one of the > existing PC native Ada compilers (with its inferior Windows GUI development > environment), have him walk into the current market place and expect him to > compete against the likes of ordinance the competition will bring to bear on > the same class of problems. That is the reality of the situation, believe me > I love Ada (spent my 1st honeymoon at the 2nd International Ada Tech > conference, gee maybe that's one of the reasons I had to have a second > honeymoon), but in the area of serious PC Windows based development the > vendors have fallen short of the mark. And from the responses I received on > this posting I can see that the vendors are not doing much (if anything at > all) to rectify this situation.