From: nasser@apldbio.com
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/27
Date: 1996-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52gr93$1k2@lex.zippo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32498FDD.6F13@lmtas.lmco.com
In article <32498FDD.6F13@lmtas.lmco.com>, Ken says...
>
>nasser@apldbio.com wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >The Ada market continues to grow.
>> >
>>
>> I don't see this. Have you looked at the help wanted Ads in the Sunday
>> papers lately?
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>Have you looked at the national help wanted ads in Aviation Week, even
>for the commercial software jobs? Lots of Ada in there...
>
But that's my point. Ada is limited to this small market right now.
Avionics, real-time embedded defense related software. This market
itself is important but small compared to the whole universe of software.
Ada should be used in other types of applications, but it is not. And this
is what is hurting Ada from becoming main stream language. Hopefully this
will change with time.
If people do not know about Ada, people will not choose to use it, and for
people to know about ada, they need to use it.
Actually I feel guilty in this myself, there are few languages I'd like
to know more about but never seem to have the time to learn them: Modula3 and
smalltalk.
I think every programmer should try to put aside few hours a week (1-2 hours)
to read about/learn/study a different language than the one they are using in
their main work.
oh boy, I sure feel very wise today :)
Nasser
--
Nasser Abbasi. Perkin Elmer - Applied BioSystem division.
Development of DNA and Protein analysis software. C/C++/UNIX.
email: nasser@apldbio.com MSEE, MSCS, MSCE, Fide chess master (FM).
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
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1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-22 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-24 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Uri Raz
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser [this message]
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-09-21 0:00 DeanNelson
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-24 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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