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,f54972b30834b03d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk (Markus Kuhn) Subject: Re: Future of Ada? Date: 1999/01/13 Message-ID: <77hsi5$oa4$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 432082330 References: <369c6b78.7488219@news.nodak.edu> Organization: U of Cambridge Computer Lab, UK Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-13T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: jamwahl@badlands.nodak.edu (Jim) writes: |> I am just wondering what those who frequent this news group think |> about the future of Ada. I've heard a lot of talk that Ada is kind of |> dying out and that not even the military is using it any more. Any |> comments would be greatly appreciated. Actually, the contrary is true. Ada is a quite nice language that has been ignored outside military and avionics for a long time, purely because good compilers were not easily available. With GNAT 3.11 reaching a high level of maturity now and numerous libraries and bindings becoming available that make GNAT not only a conforming Ada95 compiler but (much more important!) also a comfortable and productive development environment that is even accessible to poor students and academics, the interesting time for Ada is just about to start. Java is too slow and too restrictive for low-level programming, C++ is much too dangerous, and Eiffel is much less widely supported. So Ada95 is currently becomming one of the most interesting programming languages on the market, together with the various rapid-prototyping scripting languages such as Python. I believe that Ada95 is tremendously underhyped. Markus -- Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: