From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 5 May 93 16:33:26 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Survey shows: Ada not popular for reengineering Message-ID: List-Id: The May 1993 issue of Software Magazine, page 45, has an article on 4GLs. In the article is a table that has the survey results from a survey done by Sentry Market Research in which they asked corporate users which language they would use after reengineering or reverse engineering their existing systems. Here are the results: Cobol 37% 4GLs 20% C++ 16% C 15% Other 11% Ada 5% Smalltalk 3% Basic 2% Fortran 2% Once again, it is clear that the Mandated world has truly botched up fostering use of Ada in the commercial arena. Given current market trends (especially as measured by hiring patterns), I expect C/C++ to increase their percentages, and Smalltalk to surpass Ada. It's amazing that nowhere inside the Mandated world is anyone keeping track of marketing statistics as they pertain to Ada. Especially in the MIS world, much of this could be made favorable to Ada if IBM endorsed Ada in its commercial product lines. Unfortunately for Ada, IBM in recent months has been releasing a fluury of ads for many new C/C++ and Smalltalk tools in their product lines. Their message is quite clear and listened to: Ada has no role in your future. Maybe we can start up a collection so that IBM Federal STARS people can afford to call up IBM Commercial and tell them the same great story about Ada that they tell the STARS program office. Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178