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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,42490cad53ee37fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!not-for-mail From: svaa@ciberpiula.net (svaa) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? Date: 12 Mar 2005 11:08:11 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <87f5a614.0503121108.5b245eaf@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.82.66.239 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1110654492 13259 127.0.0.1 (12 Mar 2005 19:08:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:08:12 +0000 (UTC) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9249 Date: 2005-03-12T11:08:11-08:00 List-Id: Michael Card wrote in message news:... > 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.