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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-20 19:51:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.sttls1.wa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "DuckE" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <3B59EE1C@MailAndNews.com> <5be89e2f.0107180606.7185b1cb@posting.google.com> <3B559E79.F21DBE5C@earthlink.net> <5be89e2f.0107181231.40bde882@posting.google.com> <3B55FFD5.9927BD6@san.rr.com> <5be89e2f.0107191347.4a38f590@posting.google.com> Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? 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 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 02:51:22 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.248.45.203 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.sttls1.wa.home.com 995683882 24.248.45.203 (Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:51:22 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 19:51:22 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10380 Date: 2001-07-21T02:51:22+00:00 List-Id: "codesavvy" wrote in message news:5be89e2f.0107191347.4a38f590@posting.google.com... > Then Ada will be forever relegated to a fulfilling specific niches. I > believe you'll see more organizations switching from Ada to C++ rather > than the other way around. > An interesting note... A couple of years ago I asked one Ada vendor how the market was doing. She said she couldn't speak for everyone, but their buisness was on the rise. She also said that when the mandate was first dropped they lost some customers to C... but after some experience with C many were coming back to Ada :-) SteveD