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=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_20,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,f05f6c2ca4c91ddd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: nasser@apldbio.com Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada Date: 1996/09/27 Message-ID: <52gr93$1k2@lex.zippo.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 185686380 references: <324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net> <524sb9$t5g@lex.zippo.com> <32498FDD.6F13@lmtas.lmco.com> organization: Perkin-Elmer newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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? > >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