From: Kevin@world.east.nospam.com.net
Subject: Re: Future of Ada?
Date: 1999/01/16
Date: 1999-01-16T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77pooc$4nh@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 77hsi5$oa4$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk
In article <77hsi5$oa4$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, mgk25@cl.cam.ac.uk says...
>
>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.
>
I have used Ada95 (GNAT) to write a commerical (non miltary) program for
a customer just recently.
When I was asked to write the program, we did not talk about which language
to use. So I went ahead and used Ada.
I finished the program ahead of time, and still get email about the high
quality of the program and they are amazed that so far it did not crash
and there are no bugs. When they ask me what is language I used, I do
not say Ada (I am afraid they might not ask me to do more program for them if
I did, I know this sounds sad, but this is the state of the computer
industry we are in, managers want to hear you say Java or C++ since that
is all they hear about), so I just said it is GNAT, a compiler that can
be downloaded from the net, and shrug it off. (they think it is some sort
of C/C++ compiler I guess :) . I am glad the customer is not a programmer!
If I get another chance to write a program for this customer, I'll use
Ada again.
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-01-16 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-13 0:00 Future of Ada? Jim
1999-01-13 0:00 ` dennison
1999-01-13 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Jim
1999-01-13 0:00 ` E. Robert Tisdale
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Jeff Schweiger
1999-01-13 0:00 ` David Gillon
1999-01-13 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Jim
1999-01-13 0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
[not found] ` <m3iuebji2a.fsf@fred.muc.de>
1999-01-14 0:00 ` Status of GNAT 3.11p Markus Kuhn
1999-01-15 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-15 0:00 ` dewar
1999-01-16 0:00 ` Kevin [this message]
1999-01-18 0:00 ` Future of Ada? news.oxy.com
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Rush Kester
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Kirk
1999-01-19 0:00 ` Paul Whittington
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