Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ...

["Christopher A. Bohn" <bohn@delta.cis.ohio-state.edu>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Warren W. Gay VE3WWG wrote:

> project basis. I cannot see them acceptiong anything but Ada for
> weapons or flight systems. Or has this really changed?

As a datapoint, my father works for a US-based aerospace company.  A
couple years ago, they did a review to decide whether the company-standard
would remain Ada95 or would switch to C++98 (with exceptions to the
companystandard being considered on a case-by-case basis).  He asked for
my opinion, though I think it was because he was curious about the issues
rather than because he could have had much of an influence, and I
definitely gave him the impression Ada was the smarter choice from a
technical point of view.

But the company opted for C++ because there were more C++ programmers than
Ada programmers in the market, so they'd have a larger pool of talent to
consider when making hiring decisions.  My comment after-the-fact was that
the decision reinforced the rationale -- with fewer jobs requiring Ada,
there will be fewer programmers who learn Ada, or at least fewer who
get/remain proficient with Ada.

cb

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