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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/10
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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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