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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,26090718d1ab0652 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: "Ed Falis" Subject: Re: "That's the way the market is going" Date: 1997/04/17 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 235617659 Sender: news@thomsoft.com (USENET News Admin @flash) X-Nntp-Posting-Host: 192.157.137.100 References: <5j12pb$ck6$1@venus.keystonenet.com> X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE Engine V4.71.0544.0 Organization: Aonix Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-04-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marc A. Criley wrote in article <5j12pb$ck6$1@venus.keystonenet.com>... >Advocates of dropping Ada and moving to C++ often cite "That's the way the >market is going" as sufficient reason to do so, at least where I'm working. >How does one effectively rebut that? These individuals concede the technical >superiority of Ada, and that there are life cycle benefits to Ada, especially >on weapon control systems, i.e., warfighting systems. Yet, because the market >is going to C++, that is sufficient cause for us to now do the same. > >It's very frustrating, especially as the project I'm leading is quite >effectively demonstrating the capability, productivity, and effectiveness >of Ada (and this is still Ada 83!). > >But Ada is not where the market is going... Except that it seems that a fair part of the market is jumping off the C++ wagon to the more Ada-like Java wagon even as these guys are trying to go to C++. Ah the emporer's new clothes!