Re: Ada is getting more popular!

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 25.10.10 15:41, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:06:44 +0200, Georg Bauhaus wrote:
> 
>> On 25.10.10 12:33, Dmitry A. Kazakov wrote:
>>
>>> Redistribution is the key. You pay/invest in not what you get/sell. It is a
>>> distorted relationship between the producer and consumer.
>>>
>>> The point is that service is secondary to the product.
>>
>> I imagine that theorists of how-to-build-software-business will
>> emphasize differently:
>> Mathematically, the most important good is the one that
>> produces the highest profit, respecting the limiting factors
>> such as law, strategy, or other obligations.  Criteria such
>> as how-to-find-a-societal-optimum in a market economy
>> seem to be artifacts of macro economy without positive
>> manifestation anywhere.  Redistribution is a multivariate
>> function of n-compiler : m-customers, ceteris paribus.
>>
>> Can you name the latter?
> 
> Yes, the GOSPLAN

I mean the ceteris paribus besides n-compiler : m-customers
that exists in the compiler market, today, which allegedly
have the effect that today's handful of Ada compiler shops
are starving, whereas other languages feed lots of
compiler makers, leaving myriads of choices.



>> Do you have the numbers of compiler makers who sold
>> nothing but compilers in, say, the late 1980s versus
>> the same numbers as of today?  Numbers of licenses sold?
> 
> No idea. There existed dozens of C compilers that time. How many are now?
> Let us draw a chart: Ada version / compiler number
> 
> Ada 83 - 10 (?)
> Ada 95  - 3 (?)
> Ada 2005 - 1 (?)

http://www.adaic.com/compilers/comp-tool.html

If you read the public discussions at ada-auth, you know
that IBM has some support for Ada 2005.  I'd also be surprised
if the SofCheck front end is still just Ada 95---a few
years ago there were traces of 2005 already.
In addition, I I'd suggest that Randy Brukardt is fleshing
out his quite active discussing the new libraries with something
compilable by Janus/Ada.