Re: Depending on passing mechanism

[Brian Rogoff <bpr@shell5.ba.best.com>]

On 23 Oct 1997, Robert Dewar wrote:

> <<Your customers are probably clustered about some application domain, such
> as emdedded applications>>
> 
> Not at all, we have some customers who do embedded applications, but, as
> you would expect from the wide availability of GNAT on many targets, and
> the fact that it is still the only 100% complete implementation of Ada 95,
> it is widely used in all domains.

OK, you would say then that your customers are fairly evenly distributed 
and there is no significant majority of customer application domains?

> What is true is that our customers fit the profile of trying to solve
> real problems, rather than fiddling around with neat things you can do
> in the language, and in that kind of environment, you keep things simple,
> and stay away from the "look what neat abstrctions we can build" style
> of thinking. I often notice a big gap between real Ada users, and the
> CLA contributors, and with rare execptions, it is interesting to note
> that almost none of our customers read CLA regularly. 

Certainly true in my case, I'm an Ada hacker :-) at home only, the number 
of Ada jobs in my geographic location (Silicon Valley) and in my specialty 
fields is negligible. C and C++ are far more popular, with Java also
making inroads.

-- Brian