Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org>]

Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> writes:

> it doesn't make _any_ difference to the health and welfare of this
> planet if the next video game to hit the shelves is buggier than hell,
> because it was written in whatever, taking 3 times as long to write
> than what it could have taken using saner tools. 

I'm in an arguing mood tonight, so I'll argue with this, too :).

If the customers insisted on games that are nicely playable, didn't
crash, had good sound and smooth video, and the programmers were able to
deliver that, then everyone would be happier. That counts a lot towards
"welfare". 

The programmers would be happier because they'd be forced to use better
tools and processes. I'm far happier when I'm writing in Ada with Emacs
than when I'm writing in VHDL with Modelsim!

> which leads me to academia!. Some egg-head(s) get it into their skulls that
> this or that language is cool, so some university starts to push flavor A,
> at the expense of other "industry-proven" technology.  

My impression is it's the other way around. Java took over in
universities because Sun marketed it. But I don't have any good data to
back that up.

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-- Stephe