Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ...

["Marin David Condic" <dont.bother.mcondic.auntie.spam@[acm.org>]

Well, that's the chicken & egg problem. The way that gets overcome is for
students, hobbyists & hackers to have enough interest in it to learn the
language and develop useful things in it. Also if smaller firms do
development in Ada, it gets out there and they have less need for a large
pool of trained personnel. (If I was starting a small company that needed 10
programmers, I could probably find/train 10 developers rather easily. If I
had to hire a few hundred, the problem gets harder.)

So it seems to me that in a lot of ways the right things are happening.
There are certainly a number of people who have created useful things using
Ada and it has some exposure in colleges, etc. If some of those hacker
projects and useful subsystems grow into more full-blown tools and possibly
find some commercial success as products, you'll end up seeing usage of Ada
expand and that critical mass for widespread success may be found.

MDC
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"Christopher A. Bohn" <bohn@delta.cis.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message
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> But the company opted for C++ because there were more C++ programmers than
> Ada programmers in the market, so they'd have a larger pool of talent to
> consider when making hiring decisions.  My comment after-the-fact was that
> the decision reinforced the rationale -- with fewer jobs requiring Ada,
> there will be fewer programmers who learn Ada, or at least fewer who
> get/remain proficient with Ada.
>