Re: Ada and Java/C++

[gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com]

Le mardi 28 août 2012 07:35:28 UTC+2, kalvi...@gmail.com a écrit :

> 5. Ada programmers are hard to find
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> - For example, DoD has faced the problem of finding Ada programmers, DoD has been force into situation that mission critical software is being implemented in Java
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> - Java and C programmers see Ada as a complex language
> - Ada is perceived as military language
> - Ada is perceived as a complex and heavy language

You are right and it is the usual old gossip you hear often.
It has all to do with image and IMHO rather linked to the kind of applications that are made (or people think are made) with Ada, much more than the syntax.
The only way to change that is having someone making a successful Web service or popular desktop applications with Ada and develop into a large software company using principally Ada.
So go for it with Jada or Cada, but use another name, otherwise people will think you are trying to make a complex, heavy, and military variant of C or Java ;-).
G.
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PS: Note that SQL programmers like Ada as it looks familiar with what they already know...