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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,da46977c58c329df X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-31 15:35:08 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!psiuk-p2!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ... Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:08:33 -0500 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <4519e058.0201310714.650888e1@posting.google.com> <3C598CAA.7040801@home.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1012511314 16918 136.170.200.133 (31 Jan 2002 21:08:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 31 Jan 2002 21:08:34 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:19448 Date: 2002-01-31T21:08:34+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com Web: http://www.mcondic.com/ "Christopher A. Bohn" wrote in message news:Pine.GSO.4.33.0201311532390.26756-100000@delta.cis.ohio-state.edu... > > 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. >