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,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1.cambriumusenet.nl!feed.tweaknews.nl!195.71.90.67.MISMATCH!news.unit0.net!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Warren Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <20100520192448.836181A795C@www.ecn.org> <87d3wqbayp.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> Injection-Date: Fri, 21 May 2010 20:10:44 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9f8M0iN5t54V+4DF/iqO8g"; logging-data="21350"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+NLMbdQCdSdfossqjtYebXLd5W7OLkUro=" User-Agent: Xnews/5.04.25 X-Face: &6@]C2>ZS=NM|HE-^zWuryN#Z/2_.s9E|G&~DRi|sav9{E}XQJb*\_>=a5"q]\%A;5}LKP][1mA{gZ,Q!j Cancel-Lock: sha1:V3sK+AQDSB60/OM/BkCrmi/Xuwg= Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11852 Date: 2010-05-21T20:10:44+00:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta expounded in news:87d3wqbayp.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org: > Duke Normandin writes: >> On 2010-05-20, Anonymous wrote: >>>> Just curious to know if Ada is still widely used, and in what >>>> area(s) does it excel, e.g. data processing, number crunching, >>>> graphics, etc? TIA.. It's ok to be curious but this begs the question of why it is important for it to be "popular"? Do you have to sell it's use at your company? Are you considering the availability of tools and/or source code? Or, are you interested in it for your own (or open sourced) projects? Depending on the answers to some of these factors, popularity may not be important. IOW, if you need an excellent tool, then embrace Ada. Let the compiler work for you, instead of some other allowing more "shooting in the foot". Or real time "scripts" finding your problems one at a time when the user goes to use it. That reminds me of a low-calibre programmer and VB -- oh the horror of that... >>> Ada was never widely used. It could have been, because it's one of >>> the all time great general purpose languages. There's probably no >>> better or more flexible HLL. However, various factors combined to >>> make it a niche language and it doesn't have any hope of breaking >>> out of that niche or getting the use and exposure it deserves. While probably true, there is always hope. The future is murkey at best. With more and more software moving into automobiles etc., safety's profile might push this agenda a little bit. > - people who spend the effort to learn Ada show they are real software > engineers. A real software enginer bases their decisions on > technical merits, not popularity. My point above, in a nutshell. > - Sloppy programmers avoid Ada, therefore Ada helps avoid sloppy > programmers. They're more lazy than I am. ;-) Warren