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From: steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: Why Ada is not the Commercial Lang of Choice
Date: 1997/06/19
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Date: 1997-06-19T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <33a1c14d.155787285@news.mhv.net>, pvanbell@mhv.net says...
>
>I've been a real-time embeded Software Engineer since 1975. I've used
>assembly,Pascal & Fortran (not in real-time), C, and now Ada. I think
>that there are basicly two reasons why Ada did not replace C as the
>real-time embeded language of choice - in the commercial world and
>recently in the military. 
>
>
>1. Ada is not and never was a programmer's language...[snip]
>
>2. Ada is realy a high level language...[snip]

I disagree with both statements (other replies give specific examples).

I attribute Ada's lack of market penetration to it's lack (until recently)
of inexpensive development tools.

For the past 15-20 years you could buy inexpensive Pascal and C compilers
from a number of vendors.  While Ada has been around for quite some time
now, until recently it was just too expensive for the casual user.  It has
only been since the advent of GNAT that I have even looked seriously at
the language.

IMHO
Steve Doiel