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, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,932ab97db73b73f4 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Bill Pritchett" Subject: Re: Ada lives? Date: 1999/11/19 Message-ID: <814f47$7si$1@autumn.news.rcn.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 550698589 References: <3835B21C.FFEF5C51@averstar.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@rcn.com X-Trace: I7ANQTSL6becdyMDBDDD/jZPrA+kG75CAtmkbSuI2KTnYz0qugDwiw== X-MSMail-Priority: Normal NNTP-Posting-Date: 19 Nov 1999 21:23:19 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-11-19T21:23:19+00:00 List-Id: 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" 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 > > -- > -Tucker Taft stt@averstar.com http://www.averstar.com/~stt/ > Technical Director, Distributed IT Solutions (www.averstar.com/tools) > AverStar (formerly Intermetrics, Inc.) Burlington, MA USA