Re: Is the Ada World Embarrassed by the Defense Industry?

[mark@rational.com]

In article <hh02u8.ddd.ln@leia>,
  Frode =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tenneb=F8?= <frodet@nvg.org> wrote:
> DuckE wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I had little difficulty finding resources on the Internet to argue
the
> > advantages of moving to Ada 95.  No such resources were available
(that I
> > could find) supporting moving to other environments.
> >
> > We made that decision to use Ada, and have been thankful ever since.
>
> Congratulation with a well-considered choise. Perhaps you could
> compose a paper on this and put it on the Internet as a resource? :)
>
>  -Frode

Steve:

I'd also really encourage you to write something up.  But you might
consider publishing/presenting it somewhere where it would have more
impact than just floating it out on the net, where it's more likely to
be seen by people like us :-) than by those who aren't already
interested in Ada.

You might get in touch with Richard Riehle for some contacts, pointers
etc. about magazines and conferences -- he's written Ada articles for
JOOP, Embedded Systems Programming, etc. and is involved with the TOOLS
conference (http://www.tools-conferences.com/).

You also might get contact the Ada Resource Association for the same
kind of help, or other ideas about the best way to publicize your
story.  They can also put you in touch with writers who could co-author
something with you if you don't feel up to writing an article yourself.

What kind of application / industry sector are you in?  Are the
naysayers still grumbling, or are they saying "I guess Ada isn't so bad
after all", or are they saying "whew, I'm really glad we went with
Ada?"  Some quotes from people that were against Ada before would be
great.  What about the "problem" that "nobody uses Ada?"  Has there
been any negative impact from that at all, financially or otherwise?
Or was that really nothing more than a Chicken Little argument?  How
hard is to find excellent engineers who are willing to learn Ada, and
how expensive is it to train them?  That kind of stuff...

Interested!
-- mark

Mark Lundquist
Rational Software


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