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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,86616b1931cbdae5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 101deb,af27044bbd8d36a1,start X-Google-Attributes: gid101deb,public From: rav@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (robin) Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ? Date: 1997/07/19 Message-ID: <5qp3cf$aqc$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 257632162 References: <33D005F2.E5DCD710@kaiwan.com> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pl1 NNTP-Posting-User: rav Date: 1997-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: safetran writes: >I am looking for opinions on whether you think the Ada language is going >to be around in the next 5 years ? How about 10 years ? >I appreciate that with the over 50 million lines of US DOD Ada code that >exist and the numerous other Ada projects around the world, Ada will be >around for quite a while (to maintain all this code). However, I am >looking at it more from the point of view of new projects. >I work for a **commercial** company in the US and we use Ada for >embedded, real time applications. I am now about to start a couple of >new projects and need to decide whether I should continue the use of Ada >or move to C/C++/Java. Things that worry me are: >(1) Will the compiler vendors be around in the long run. >(2)Its already difficult to find Ada programmers and many programmers do >not want to work in Ada as it has lower market value. >(3)My products have a life expectancy of over 10 years and so I need to >find people to maintain the code in the long run. >Note: I have been using Ada for over 7 years and so am quite aware of >its benefits and don't need to be convinced [I also program in C/C++ :)] >-- >Rakesh >Rakesh.Malhotra@Safetran.com If you're worried about the long-term availability, and want the benefits of Ada, why not consider PL/I? It provides the capability of Ada, particularly for real-time. IBM has recently brought out PL/I for Windows 95 and Windows NT, and shortly before that, for AIX and OS/2. AFAIK, it is also working on porting a version of that compiler for the mainframe. That company has had PL/I on its mainframes for the past 30 years or so.