Re: Ada lives?

["Bill Pritchett" <wpritche@dcscorp.com>]

Great information.  To go even further though, what would be a rough
estimate of the current number of Ada projects around the world?

Bill Pritchett
DCS Corporation

"Tucker Taft" <stt@averstar.com> wrote in message
news:3835B21C.FFEF5C51@averstar.com...
> Chris wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone point me to any recent analyses (or facts even ;-) that
indicate
> > the current trends in the usage of Ada.  The sort of information I'm
after
> > is...
> >
> > - Is the use of Ada increasing or decreasing?
>
> It seems to be growing slowly but steadily, with a shift occurring toward
> commercial use.
>
> > - How much Ada is used on new projects?
>
> It depends on the market.  In safety-critical systems, Ada is
> a major player.  In desktop applications, Ada is a negligent
> player.
>
> In real-time embedded systems, Ada is probably the
> number 3 or 4, above languages like Modula, Eiffel, Pascal, but
> below C/C++.  It is not clear where Java is in this market yet.
>
> > - Where is the Ada Tools market - total size, increasing or decreasing?
>
> Slowly but steadily increasing, somewhere in the range of $100-$200
million
> (it is hard to be more specific because most of the companies are
privately
> held, or don't break out their Ada tools business separately).
>
> > - How much is Ada 83 still being used vs Ada 95?
>
> There are a number of large legacy projects that cannot justify
> upgrading to Ada 95, except as part of a major system upgrade.
> The large majority of new Ada projects use Ada 95 compilers.
> It is of course hard to know which Ada 95 features they use.  One
> can certainly continue to program in mostly-Ada-83 using an Ada 95
> compiler, which makes sense in some environments.
>
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Chris Chedgey.
> > Headway Software Ltd.
> > email:  chrisc at headway-software dot com
>
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