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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00, LOTS_OF_MONEY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,92ab0b93767eaa5e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-08-22 10:02:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!mtu.ru!news.rosnet.ru!newsfeed.rt.ru!news-hub.siol.net!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Comment on Ada usage Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 12:33:50 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: <9m0mte$8vo$1@nh.pace.co.uk> References: <3B82CD0B.4A551A42@sparc01.ftw.rsc.raytheon.com> <9lukgq$f5f$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 998498030 9208 136.170.200.133 (22 Aug 2001 16:33:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 22 Aug 2001 16:33:50 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12259 Date: 2001-08-22T16:33:50+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Ted Dennison" wrote in message news:zKQg7.10632$2u.76196@www.newsranger.com... > 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. >