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From: west@nospam
Subject: Re: The future of Ada
Date: 1999/03/27
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Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00
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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.