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,da46977c58c329df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-31 12:40:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!delta.cis.ohio-state.edu!bohn From: "Christopher A. Bohn" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ... Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 15:40:50 -0500 Organization: The Ohio State University Dept. of Computer and Info. Science Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0201310714.650888e1@posting.google.com> <3C598CAA.7040801@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: delta.cis.ohio-state.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: <3C598CAA.7040801@home.com> Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19441 Date: 2002-01-31T15:40:50-05:00 List-Id: 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 -- Christopher A. Bohn ____________|____________ http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~bohn/ ' ** ** " (o) " ** ** ' "Technology and air power are integrally and synergistically related." - P Meilinger, "Ten Propositions Regarding Air Power"