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 From: herwin@osf1.gmu.edu (HARRY R. ERWIN) Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ? Date: 1997/07/31 Message-ID: <5rq4dq$1sf@portal.gmu.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 261000762 References: <33D005F2.E5DCD710@kaiwan.com> <33D3EC6E.7920@gsg.eds.com> <33DD01FA.247D@pseserv3.fw.hac.com> <5rnige$5d1@portal.gmu.edu> <5rp5dc$mjc$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-07-31T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Re: criticism of my list of dead or dying languages. The list was put together to help answer the question of what would be suitable target languages for converting existing code. One concern was that the language could reasonably be expected to have significant multi-vendor support in 10 years. This 10-year rule was how a number of languages got on the list. For example, although Pascal has a significant user community today, colleges are shifting their introductory programming courses away from it to such languages as C++ and Ada (and, in some cases Java). Mainframe vendors are dropping support to Pascal, mostly due to lack of use in large projects. Even Borland is moving away from pure Pascal to Delphi. Modula-2 and Modula-3 got on the list for similar reasons. etc. -- Harry Erwin, Internet: herwin@gmu.edu, Web Page: http://osf1.gmu.edu/~herwin PhD student in computational neuroscience (how bats echolocate) Lecturer for CS 211 (data structures and advanced C++) Senior Software Analyst supporting the FAA