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From: west@nospam
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/27
Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net

In article <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net>, "Mike says...
 
>
>My experience in learning Ada is the same as Michael's -- Ada will not
>tolerate off-the-cuff programming, where you're only thinking a few lines or
>a few functions ahead.  I come from 'C', a language that is always beguiling
>you with "well, you probably shouldn't do that, but -I'll- never tell". 

...snip..
 
Very few people will argue than C or C++ are better than Ada.

But nowadays, the Big one is Java. It is not C or C++.

Ada programmers like to put C/C++ down, becuase it is easy to do so
(due to obviouse weaknesses in these languages). But it is much harder
to try to knock Java down, which is really becomming the main language
of use out there now.

I've seen a report that shows that by the end of this year, there will be
more Java programmers than C++.

Java is being used everywhere now. There are even webServers and application
servers written in Java. Show me one web server written in Ada.

Why is that? 
  
Ada has been around for 20 years, while Java for only 4.5 years.
Ada is almost non-existant in the commerical world. Java is taking the
commerical world by storm. 
 
Why is that?  How come a language like Ada has been standing still
for 20 years in terms of its use in the commerical world, while C/C++/Java 
and even Perl are being used by almost everyone else? 

West.





  reply	other threads:[~1999-03-27  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 111+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-03-10  0:00 The future of Ada Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-10  0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-03-10  0:00   ` Tom Moran
1999-03-11  0:00   ` Steve O'Neill
1999-03-10  0:00 ` dewar
1999-03-10  0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-10  0:00   ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00 ` dennison
1999-03-10  0:00   ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-10  0:00 ` Al Christians
1999-03-10  0:00   ` dewar
1999-03-10  0:00 ` robert_dewar
1999-03-11  0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-11  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
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     ` 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         ` Richard D Riehle
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
1999-03-11  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             ` Mike Silva
1999-03-22  0:00               ` Gisle S�lensminde
1999-03-23  0:00                 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-23  0:00                 ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-23  0:00                   ` Chris Morgan
1999-03-22  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
1999-03-11  0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-03-11  0:00   ` Tucker Taft
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 [this message]
1999-03-27  0:00         ` robert_dewar
1999-03-27  0:00         ` mjsilva
1999-03-27  0:00           ` west
1999-03-27  0:00             ` Chad R. Meiners
1999-03-27  0:00             ` mjsilva
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                     ` bourguet
1999-03-30  0:00                       ` SpamSpamSpam
1999-03-30  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-03-30  0:00                       ` Jerry van Dijk
1999-03-30  0:00                     ` robert_dewar
1999-03-30  0:00                       ` SpamSpamSpam
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                         ` Stephen Thomas
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         ` John McCabe
1999-03-27  0:00           ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-27  0:00           ` west
1999-03-28  0:00             ` John McCabe
1999-04-16  0:00               ` s.shering
1999-03-28  0:00         ` Tom Moran
1999-03-28  0:00         ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-27  0:00     ` Aidan Skinner
1999-03-28  0:00     ` David Botton
1999-03-12  0:00 ` Gordon Dodrill
1999-03-12  0:00   ` robert_dewar
1999-03-12  0:00   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-03-13  0:00   ` Nick Roberts
1999-03-15  0:00     ` Marin David Condic
1999-03-13  0:00   ` Corey Ashford
1999-03-12  0:00 ` Andreas Winckler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1990-08-15 18:49 The Future " Edward V. Berard
1990-08-15 23:05 ` Michael Endrizzi 
1990-08-15 15:19 Michael Endrizzi 
1990-08-15 17:52 ` Jerry Callen
1990-08-17 17:21   ` Steve Vestal
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