From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c6e9700a33963193 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: mjsilva@my-dejanews.com Subject: Re: The future of Ada Date: 1999/03/27 Message-ID: <7djqkn$qca$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 459828836 References: <36E690FA.4B9C@sandia.gov> <36fbd229.1390755@news.demon.co.uk> <36fcbe32.0@news1.jps.net> <7di6r6$bhd@drn.newsguy.com> <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <7dj8vi$2qi@drn.newsguy.com> X-Http-Proxy: 1.1 x9.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 209.239.208.128 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Sat Mar 27 23:46:33 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows 98; Compaq) Date: 1999-03-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <7dj8vi$2qi@drn.newsguy.com>, west@nospam wrote: > In article <7diro7$1jo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, mjsilva@my-dejanews.com says... > > >Perhaps instead of telling us how Java will take over the world (a look at > >dice.com shows 3 times as many C/C++ offerings as Java...), > > And it shows also 200 as many times C/C++ offerings as Ada.. We are quite aware that the Ada world is much smaller than either the Java or C/C++ worlds. The difference is that you are the one who interrupted this thread with an off-topic claim: >But nowadays, the Big one is Java. It is not C or C++. > Oh yes. you can look at Ada as long as you want. But when it comes to > writing commerical applications with it in the real world, Ada does not > not have the needed libraries and packages to do the work, and so it falls > short. Being both an Ada newcomer and an embedded developer, I have no idea of the level of Ada support for your list. Perhaps some others will choose to respond if they think it would be informative. If you feel that Java is the right tool for your applications then I'm delighted. Ada is clearly a better tool for *my* applications. What I don't understand, and what I resent, is the compulsion by many Java supporters to turn any discussion, on any topic, into a Java press release. > > >I can tell you that for my applications (embedded real-time systems), Ada is a > >much better fit than Java. > > May be. I dont know. but yes Ada could not get out of this very limited > market (military, embedded real-time) for 20 years. We are talking about > commerical/business stuff here. No, actually my message wasn't talking about commercial/business stuff at all. But, yes, Ada does seem stuck, and a lot of us think that is a sad state of affairs. I don't see much need to carry on this discussion, so I won't respond any more on this topic. Mike -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own