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From: "Peter C. Chapin" <pcc482719@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Advice on selling Ada to a C shop
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 08:35:46 -0400
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:

> For (b), you must do some market research up-front before you can pitch
> the language to your company.  This is because, in many developers'
> minds, a language is only as good as the IDE (*not* the compiler,
> unfortunately); so you should be prepared to demo GPS and ObjectAda to
> them.

There is also gnatbench. If you are an Eclipse shop that might be the most
important IDE to demonstrate.

In general AdaCore does a great job at giving the impression that Ada is alive
and developing. They either produce or are involved with a steady stream of
new tools and targets. I'm not saying that other Ada vendors are doing
nothing to develop and promote Ada, but from where I sit (admittedly an
academic viewpoint), AdaCore seems the most visible.

Peter