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=-0.0 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_40 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 13 May 93 04:11:02 GMT From: world!srctran@uunet.uu.net (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Yet another example of failure of a language Message-ID: List-Id: >Too late, I'm afraid, as Computer Language has just gone under. This >is obviously due to their continued emphasis on C and C++ programming, >an approach that is doomed to failure in the Non-Munditoed World. Bob, Get your head out of the sand and start doing a serious demographic survey. You will find that there are twenty more times C/C++ jobs than Ada jobs in the non-Mandated world, fifteen times more C/C++ companies, fifteen times more C/C++ products, ten times more C/C++ code being reused, and twenty times more C/C++ language use in university research efforts, and that these numbers have held for the last five years. If you, or anyone else inside the Mandated world, made a honest effort to measure such statistics, the results would be no different: Ada is dead outside the Mandated world. With regards to Computer Language, they sent their computer language specific stuff over to Dr. Dobb's Journal, and are forming a new magazine on software engineering. SUbscribers will pick up Dr. Dobb's subscriptions (heavily C/C++) and get the new magazine for free. On top of which, there are half a dozen other journals heavily C/C++ oriented, and a thriving C/C++ industry WHERE PEOPLE SPEND THEIR OWN MONEY. You called this one wrong. Greg -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimiztion P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178