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: 26 May 93 22:53:17 GMT From: world!srctran@decwrl.dec.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Emb.Sys.Prog survey shows Ada being used negligibly Message-ID: List-Id: >My friends in the academies tell me that the ignorance of, and sometimes >hostility to, Ada among students and faculty is not terribly different >in the academies than elsewhere. The same reasons are given: lousy >and overpriced tools compared to other languages, clunkiness of the >type system, irrelevance of Ada to the rest of the world. I'd like to point out that most realistic sub-study of the original Mosemann studies, in terms of actually looking at real world demographics, was that done by Naval Postgraduate School team, whose statements were at odds with those of the other sub-studies done by contractors. Greg -- ************************************************************************** Greg Aharonian Source Translation & Optimization P.O. Box 404, Belmont, MA 02178