From: gpriv@axonx.com
Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:37:59 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2008-03-19T21:37:59-07:00 [thread overview]
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On Mar 19, 8:51 am, "framefri...@gmail.com" <framefri...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta ha scritto:
>
> > Thomas wrote:
> > > Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> > > > Not many countries build jet airplanes, satellites, or nuclear power
> > > > plants. These are the countries where you're likely to find the most
> > > > Ada software engineers, because that's where Ada came from.
>
> > > I personally, from a beginners point of view, find it sad that this very
> > > competent language seems "stuck" in the world of satellites and nuclear
> > > power plants.
>
> > I agree with you and I am trying to do my part to solve this problem,
>
> I agree too. I just returned from a meeting with a student of mine
> who is working on
> his "final project". His duty is to develop (in Ada, of course) a
> software for P2P live
> streaming. The program has lots of TCP/UDP I/O handled by separate
> tasks, protected
> objects and so on... While coming back to my office I tried to
> imagine what a mess would
> have been writing the software in C...
Been there, it is a mess indeed!
George
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2008-03-18 19:08 Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Mike Silva
2008-03-18 20:41 ` Pascal Obry
2008-03-18 22:58 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-18 22:25 ` Mike Silva
2008-03-18 22:50 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-19 11:42 ` Thomas
2008-03-19 12:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-19 12:51 ` framefritti
2008-03-20 4:37 ` gpriv [this message]
2008-03-19 12:16 ` Ludovic Brenta
2008-03-19 19:04 ` Tero Koskinen
2008-03-20 8:57 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2008-03-25 18:02 ` Tero Koskinen
2008-03-25 19:57 ` Gautier
2008-03-19 19:55 ` svaa
2008-03-19 21:14 ` Phaedrus
2008-03-20 4:52 ` gpriv
2008-03-20 20:22 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-20 20:48 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-20 22:17 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-20 22:59 ` gpriv
2008-03-21 1:54 ` tmoran
2008-03-21 4:16 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2008-03-21 16:41 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-21 19:15 ` gpriv
2008-03-22 14:00 ` Maciej Sobczak
2008-03-21 16:39 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-21 19:21 ` gpriv
2008-03-21 21:11 ` Adam Beneschan
2008-03-22 7:02 ` Simon Wright
2008-03-24 18:01 ` gpriv
2008-03-21 7:52 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2008-03-22 17:16 ` Subtypes to represent coordinate charts Eric Hughes
2008-03-21 16:44 ` Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Simon Wright
2008-03-20 21:17 ` gpriv
2008-03-20 1:34 ` Ivan Levashew
2008-03-19 7:42 ` Thomas
2008-03-19 10:35 ` Peter C. Chapin
2008-03-19 21:21 ` Phaedrus
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2008-03-31 4:27 ` David Thompson
2008-03-31 5:40 ` DScott
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