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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2a8a4ec5c7e0aa5e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-03-05 22:19:09 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!srctran From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Marketing Ada In-Reply-To: breland@mcc.com's message of Fri, 5 Mar 1993 14:45:41 GMT Message-ID: Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Organization: The World References: <1993Mar4.234815.18550@seas.gwu.edu> <1993Mar5.144541.10975@mcc.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 16:30:14 GMT Date: 1993-03-05T16:30:14+00:00 List-Id: Mark Breland concludes: >So...unless a company with an attitude like Borland shows up on the scene, >don't expect to see *any* Ada marketing hype directed at the masses. Unfortunately, things are worse than this, since a fair number of DoD software policies implicitly assume certain levels of Ada acceptance in the general marketplace (to provide the DoD with the programmers, tools and libraries) to meet DoD goals. With the STANFINS fiasco, having someone strongly publicly push for Ada becomes even more important so that Ada is accepted enough to have the marketplace provide the supply of programmers, libraries and tools needed to meet DoD software goals. Thus it is not just sad that the Ada vendors (as well as the DoD and contractors like the STARS people) have dropped the Ada marketing ball. If it gets any worse, it probably will become a mild threat to national security, as it becomes more difficult for the DoD to meet its software needs on a diminished budget. However, as much of the grapevine that I monitor suspects, there is a fair chance within the next few years that the DoD will drop the Ada mandate as unworkable. When even the outrageously biased and yes-man Mosemann studies say that Ada currently is only marginally more economical than C/C++ (read the TRW) section, with C++ catching up, the reality is probably in C++'s favor, which the generals eventually will be unable to ignore. J'accuse. Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178