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From: Kevin@world.east.nospam.com.net
Subject: Re: Future of Ada?
Date: 1999/01/16
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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