Re: Ada - buzzword or not? (Was: Ada-Europe 2007 early registration deadline approaching)

[Chris Hills <chris@phaedsys.org>]

In article <ygezm3gqajm.fsf_-_@hugin.crs4.it>, Jacob Sparre Andersen 
<sparre@nbi.dk> writes
>[ XFUT comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada ]
>
>Hugh wrote:
>> Dirk Craeynest wrote:
>
>>>                    12th International Conference on
>>>            Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2007
>>>
>>>                 25 - 29 June 2007, Geneva, Switzerland
>>>
>>>             http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2007.html
>
>> Seem to remember ADA was a common buzzword 15 years ago, [...]
>I've never percieved Ada as a buzzword.

Me neither it is the name of a language.

>> Does anyone still use it or is it another of those 80's type
>> defuncto type language like Pascal and Modulo2?
>
>I use it.  I have done it since Ada was added to GCC in 1994-95.  And
>I know of one software engineering school where it is tought and one
>more where the professors keeps it for themselves here in Denmark.

I think Ada is less popular than it was (a statement of numerical fact 
not a comment on the language itself) other languages are used more 
often. However Ada still has a very large part of the safety critical 
market.  Some areas would use nothing else.

Pascal and Modular 2 are all but defunct.  There are too many companies 
with a vested interest in Ada to let it go quietly.

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