Re: Fed OOPS ... OOPS! We forgot to include Ada!

[sdl@linus.mitre.org (Steven D. Litvintchouk)]

In article <3kkng4$j1s@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> dweller@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Weller) writes:

> This was posted on comp.object and comp.lang.<every other language
> except Ada>
>
> I'm feeling somewhat peckish, so I'll just post it here in its
> entirety without further comment:
> ============================================================================
> Article 27510 of comp.object:
> From: chrisz@parcplace.com
> Newsgroups: comp.software-eng,comp.object,comp.lang.smalltalk,comp.lang.c++,comp.databases.sybase,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.object
> Subject: Fed OOPS '95 April 19th
> Date: Sun, 19 Mar 95 09:14:39 PDT
> Organization: ParcPlace Systems, Inc.
> Lines: 137
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Parcplace, AMS, Rational Software, hp, OMG, ODI, Versant, LLNL, EXPERSOFT,
> Computerworld Client/Server Journal and Enterprise Re-Engineering present:
>
>    Federal Object Oriented Programming Symposium (FED OOPS 95)
>         "Enterprise Integration through Object Technology"

Your point is well taken.  Whenever I go to hear a presentation by a
major workstation vendor or OS vendor, they never seem to mention Ada
unless they are specifically asked about it, or unless they are
briefing an audience that they already know has high government
involvement (and sometimes not even then).  Likewise in the trade
press, articles that tout OO for business audiences often mention C++
and Smalltalk (and more recently, CORBA)--but never Ada 95.

This low profile for Ada is continuing to hurt its credibility and
marketability.  The absence of "big name" vendors who endorse Ada
(even when their audience is non-government) is particularly
discouraging.



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