OOPSLA data shows that Ada9X has no chance

OOPSLA data shows that Ada9X has no chance

[Gregory Aharonian]

   I just finished reviewing seven years (1986-1992) of papers from OOPSLA
conferences.   Here's the language count:
			Smalltalk 	77
			C/C++		48
			Lisp/Scheme	24
			Ada		 5

     Once again, the Ada community has failed in its responsibility to
foster Ada use whereever possible.  No wonder that Smalltalk, a language
with no federal backing or academic teaching use, now has as much market
share in the non-Mandated world as Ada.  Its advocates, companies like
Xerox, ParcPlace and IBM go to OOPSLA and push their uses of the language.

    And even more interesting, of these papers, 24 of the C/C++ or
Smalltalk efforts were funded by DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, ARMY RES. INST., CECOM
or AIR FORCE ESD, while DARPA funded only one Ada paper.  What message
does this send to the non-Mandated world?  That the leading DoD research
funding agencies believe that C/C++ and Smalltalk are the wave of the
future for object oriented programming.

    Couple these statistics with the ongoing boycotts of the Object World
conferences by the Ada community, and the result, Christine Anderson, 
unlike your comments at the STSC conference, is that few in the OO world
give any thought to Ada, including those in the OO world who are in the
Mandated world.  Ada9X will be offering too little too late by those with
two feet in two camps who should be wearing tutu's.  Too bad, too sad,
tutaloo !!!!

Greg Aharonian
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