Re: Current status of Ada?

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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message 
news:UfednSFjcrN3-UnbnZ2dnUVZ_tWtnZ2d@comcast.com...
> >Rational and Aonix are nowhere to be seen.
> On April 3, 2007, I posted to this newsgroup:
> "I was pleased to see Ada prominently featured at the Aonix booth, as
> well as the AdaCore booth, today at the Embedded Systems Conference
> Silicon Valley."

I did not get to ESC conference this year.   My schedule made it impossible
to attend.   I am glad to hear that Aonix featured Ada.  What about Rational?
I know that AdaCore continues to vigorously promote Ada.

Today I presented the Ada module in my "programming paradigms" course.  The
reaction from students is good.   Soon, though, I may lose that course to one of
our junior faculty who knows nothing about Ada.

Ed Falis indicated surprise that anyone could misinterpret Paige's memo.  The 
fact
is that the misinterpretation was widespread and that wrong interpretation was
received with a certain amount of glee in some quarters.   For some reason, Ada
has enemies. It is not entirely clear why this should be the case.

Richard