From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 1 Sep 93 01:34:57 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Why Ada has seven years to thrive or die Message-ID: List-Id: >> PRECENTAGE OF USERS ADOPTING >> OBJECT ORIENTED TECHNOLOGY >> >> [ .. and more stuff implying trouble for Ada acceptance ] >Object-oriented programming is one way of solving problems; one of >many ways. When the dust has settled, all the other ways will still >be around, and languages that do not enforce a single "one size fits >all" discipline of problem solving - general-purpose languages - will >still be the mainstream. Remember LISP? Remember APL? Remember >Prolog? And don't panic. Do panic. Whatever new fads that are out there being adopted (CASE,OO,GUI, multiprocessing,distributed processing,AI,natural language) is not being done in Ada to any significant degree. If this was ten years ago, I would agree, don't panic as the race has just begun. But this is ten years into these races, and Ada is nowhere to be found. -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian srctran@world.std.com Source Translation & Optimization 617-489-3727 P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178