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: 103376,29fe9a340e0d180d X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Brian Rogoff Subject: Re: Depending on passing mechanism Date: 1997/10/23 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 282664306 References: X-Trace: 877625362 17789 bpr 206.184.139.132 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 23 Oct 1997, Robert Dewar wrote: > < 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