Re: Comment on Ada usage

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

10% sounds a little closer to reality. However, one needs to consider the
readership of Embedded.Com. What percentage of them use Ada? That could
account for skewing the results to the near-zero number they got. I suspect
that most of their readership builds smaller consumer-oriented devices
rather than large-scale railroad & air traffic control systems, defense and
aerospace systems, etc. Ada certainly has made an effort to convince the
large scale, safety critical, long lived community that it has advantages
and you see that in a larger percentage of those projects going with Ada.
But what about the fast-time-to-market, low-cost, small-scale,
who-cares-if-it-has-a-few-glitches, consumer electronics industry? What does
Ada do to appeal to that market? (It *could* play a bigger role there, but
it has to cater more to that customer by understanding his needs &
satisfying them.)

MDC
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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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> One of the more respectable industry survery numbers he mentioned put Ada
at
> %10. That's obviously not a majority, but neither is it an insignificant
number
> that can be freely ignored, like he goes on to imply.
>
> Then again, about %10 of all people are left handed like me, but everyone
> building manually-manipuated objects acts like we don't exist either. So
its not
> like this annoying attitude is unique to this one author, or even
programming
> languages in general.
>