From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/10
Date: 1999-03-10T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c6f8o$61g$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov
In article <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov>,
gjdodri@sandia.gov wrote:
> I am obviously frustrated. How can I continue to promote
> the use of Ada when the numbers mentioned in the first
> two paragraphs above indicate a lack of growth in Ada
> compared to the other languages? Any thoughts, either
> positive or negative, will be appreciated.
Clearly some old projects will drop Ada, and some new
projects will adopt Ada, and some other projects will
just continue to use Ada.
We see far more people adopting Ada, but that may be
because we stress the move to Ada 95, and did so early,
and also the open source nature of GNAT is what encourages
some companies to consider the Ada route in the first
place.
How to measure the overall situation? Difficult of course.
Ada Core Technologies sees a rapid growth in its business,
and the future is looking bright. Now is this at the
expense of other vendors? Well part of it is of course,
that is the nature of competition, but on the other hand,
the other vendors are finding their Ada business healthy
as well -- go ask them :-)
So from where we sit, we see Ada has having a steady, long,
and bright future. We do not count on the wishful thinking
that everyone will drop VB on PC's and adopt Ada (and we
don't think this will happen even if all sorts of wondrous
"visual Ada" stuff were to appear). On the other hand, the
niche that Ada occupies -- large scale high quality
software -- is a pretty important niche and not one that
is going to go away in a hurry.
Robert Dewar
Ada Core Technologies
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1999-03-10 0:00 The future of Ada Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-10 0:00 ` robert_dewar [this message]
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-10 0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Steve O'Neill
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Michael Garrett
1999-03-12 0:00 ` vershokv
1999-03-26 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1999-04-16 0:00 ` s.shering
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-03-27 0:00 ` west
1999-03-27 0:00 ` mjsilva
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Steve Quinlan
1999-03-29 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Stephen Thomas
1999-03-30 0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-31 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-31 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-30 0:00 ` bourguet
1999-03-30 0:00 ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-29 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-30 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-03-31 0:00 ` west
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Steve Doiel
1999-04-02 0:00 ` dennison
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-02 0:00 ` kewick
1999-04-02 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-05 0:00 ` Stephen Leake
1999-04-03 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-04-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-27 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-28 0:00 ` Tom Moran
1999-03-27 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-28 0:00 ` David Botton
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-11 0:00 ` kirk
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Stanley R. Allen
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12 0:00 ` steve
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Joseph P Vlietstra
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Mark D. McKinney
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-14 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Scott Ingram
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Gunther Dragoski
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Dino Gianisis
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Olivier Devuns
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-11 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-21 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-22 0:00 ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-23 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-26 0:00 ` R. Rabeau
1999-03-26 0:00 ` Mike Silva
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Steve Whalen
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-12 0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-13 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-15 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-12 0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
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