Re: Anybody in US using ADA ?

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

It depends. By "Hacker Community" I meant those who are developing and
sharing software without some immediate commercial purpose in mind. Ada has
its own hacker community that is putting out some software - just not enough
of them to flood the world with something like Linux. If you can't get the
commercial developers to use Ada because of their investment in existing
technology, you get the "hackers" to build technology to surpass what is
already there.

I agree that there are trends in the larger "Hacker Community" that Ada does
not fit in well with. But that doesn't mean it can't have some appeal in
some other way to some segment of the world. When you say "The drive is to
do more and more while saying less and less" I couldn't agree more nor do I
think that is a bad thing. That's simply talking about "leverage" and if Ada
concentrated on that a bit more it might start looking really attractive to
others. I don't mean shorten the syntax. I mean provide big libraries so
that a developer basically spends time patching together existing code
rather than developing it all from bottom-dead-center.

MDC
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Kevin Cline <kcline17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> LOL.  Look at the languages that have been adopted by the 'hacker
> world'
> over the past fifteen years: C++. Tcl/Tk. Perl. Java. Python. Ruby.
> PHP.
> The drive is to do more and more while saying less and less.  Safety
> is good, but expressiveness and compatibility with existing technology
> (i.e. the Web, relational databases, and GUI) are the real drivers. OO
> is still going strong, but functional programming is gaining
> mindshare.
> Compile-link-run is on the wane.
>
> Also, all these languages provide built-in associative containers.
> Arrays are fine for small embedded systems, but not very useful
> for database-driven text processing applications.