Re: Another measure of Ada's rejection by corporate America

[Chuck Bramlet <"ELL447::BRAMLET"@ECC7.ATENG.AZ.HONEYWELL.COM>]

Gregory Aharonian expounds at length on the "fact" that Ada is
not being enthusiastically embraced by corporate America.

Personally, being reletively new to the programming business,
I don't see that much of a problem with Ada.  If Greg could see
some of the hacked code that I had to dig through last year, to
write an Ada program that did the same thing, he might change
his mind.  The value of a language is in how well it is used,
and in how easily it can be made to do what needs to be done.

Granted, there are other languages that are more easily used,
but each has it's target users and applications.  While you
wouldn't necessarily program a PC application in Ada, you
deffinately would not want to program an airplane in COBOL or
SmallTalk.  At least, IMHO.  Also, if one's company wants to
program for a government facility, for the most part one must
program in Ada.

Also, for the record here, COBOL was brought to us many years
ago by the same people who are now pushing Ada (the U.S.
Government).  Thankfully, I have not had to endure the agravation
of taking a COBOL class.  But, I understand that COBOL is about
as programmer friendly as Ada.

Just my $0.02

Chuck bramlet
bramlet@eccx.ateng.az.honeywell.com