Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada?

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Michael Card <thehouseofcards@remove.this.part.mac.com> wrote in message news:<thehouseofcards-A7CEC0.21331309032005@news.verizon.net>...
> Hello everyone-
> 
> It seems that everywhere I look, I see articles about the DoD world 
> being anxious to purge Ada from all their systems in favor of C++ and 
> Java. For example, see
> 
> http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/home/article.php?id=100149
> 
> This article references the Navy Open Architecture Computing Environment 
> (NOACE- love that acronym) which specifically calls for a move away from 
> Ada and requires all new software to be done in C++ or Java ("the C++ 
> mandate"?)

Amazing there are no comments about that article, beside a nosense
about USA gov trying to make software code unreadable for China.

Yes, Ada is still running because of inertia, and because of intertia
it still will run for a long time. But it's a fact that there are very
little people interested in Ada, (companies, professional programmers,
students or just curious). The DoD is moving to other languages, and
there are a few big proyects out of DoD, but they eventually will move
into other popular languages.

You shouldn't need to read this article to realice that Ada is almost
irrelevant, and that's the trend.

Why? How Ada has reach that point of irrelevance? what can be done to
change the trend?

Those's are common threads in this forum. Just seach.