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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-10 09:47:56 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!news-in.mts.net!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:40:38 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1063212024 198.96.223.163 (Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:40:24 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 12:40:24 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42351 Date: 2003-09-10T12:40:38-04:00 List-Id: Ludovic Brenta wrote: > "John R. Strohm" writes: >>I just saw an announcement somewhere that the People's Republic of >>China has some BIG project that is going all in Ada. I'm not >>certain, but I think it is their manned spaceflight work. > > I think that the Chinese are being pretty smart these days. First, > they kicked Microsoft out of their administration in favour of Linux > and local companies. Now they use Ada for serious stuff. It seems to > me that they understand whet is in their best interest as users of > technology : low lifecycle costs, efficient and reliable software. > > Unfortunately, most users of technology in the West blindly follow the > advice given to them by vendors of technology. And, as I explained, > these vendors are interested in selling expensive, unreliable and > inefficient software :( Wouldn't it be ironic if the rest of the world uses the technology that the US military developed and paid for (Ada, with tax dollars), while they ditch it for inferior tools. Worse, later their own technology (Ada) could end up being used against them. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg