From: stt@houdini.camb.inmet.com (Tucker Taft)
Subject: Re: long term viability of Ada
Date: 1996/09/21
Date: 1996-09-21T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Dy3Gwq.MI2.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 324219D1.15FFEF33@bright.net
Greg A Barnett (barnett@bright.net) wrote:
: ... They claim
: that since the DoD is abandoning Ada (their words, not mine) and since
: there is very little commercial use of Ada in the US (again their
: words), Ada is a dead language that won't be around in 5-10 years. Does
: anyone have a crystal ball that sees 5-10 years in the future? What are
: the projections for market share, number of projects written in Ada,
: dollar value of Ada contracts, etc.?
The Ada market continues to grow.
You might have them listen in on comp.lang.ada, or visit the
lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada website to see how active the Ada market is these
days. C++ is the language that seems to be somewhat more under attack
at the moment, with C9X and Cobol9X both adding classes, Java grabbing
the Internet, and Ada 95 continuing in the high reliability business.
If they are interested in CORBA, they should certainly talk to IONA and/or
Objective Interface Systems. The Ada 95/CORBA story is quite impressive
right now.
: BTW, I don't expect this will change their minds, they've made their
: decision and facts would just confuse the issue. Sigh! I could use
: some encouragment.
: --
: Greg A. Barnett
: Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems - Akron
-Tucker Taft stt@inmet.com http://www.inmet.com/~stt/
Intermetrics, Inc. Cambridge, MA USA
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1996-09-20 0:00 long term viability of Ada Greg A Barnett
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-20 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Shayne Flint
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft [this message]
1996-09-22 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-23 0:00 ` Jerry Petrey
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-24 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-26 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-10-01 0:00 ` Uri Raz
[not found] ` <4vd8z1ze0o.fsf@world.std.com>
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Frank Manning
1996-09-30 0:00 ` Stephen M O'Shaughnessy
1996-09-24 0:00 ` bourass
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Byron Kauffman
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-27 0:00 ` nasser
1996-09-28 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-03 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ralph Paul
[not found] ` <01bba6ce$f10dae20$488371a5@dhoossr.iquest.com>
1996-09-22 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-24 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-10-02 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1996-10-04 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1996-09-21 0:00 DeanNelson
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-21 0:00 ` Ken Garlington
1996-09-24 0:00 Mark Bell
1996-09-24 0:00 Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-09-25 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-10-01 0:00 Simon Johnston
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