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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c1400b61b3f80c1e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: gpriv@axonx.com Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:37:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <660e92cb-1032-46db-9283-6af740a5edeb@a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> References: <87d4pr6413.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <47e0fc15$0$89167$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> <1714c616-7051-4f77-9d0e-306466876d2d@8g2000hsu.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.196.71.114 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205987879 12575 127.0.0.1 (20 Mar 2008 04:37:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:37:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: a1g2000hsb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=151.196.71.114; posting-account=YaY8rAoAAAAAnFXOECY3BGVJsrvFJCgy User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-Via: 1.1 SPARKS X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20501 Date: 2008-03-19T21:37:59-07:00 List-Id: On Mar 19, 8:51 am, "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