Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died

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

If we build things in Ada, this starts making it more viable. When you hack
tools for your job, use Ada. When you look at new startup projects, use Ada.
Go out and dream up a product you might sell to the world and use Ada to
develop it. Successful businesses that use Ada will do a lot more to spur
Ada usage than anything else. It would create *jobs* that use Ada and people
go where the money is. Most of us here believe in Ada as a better way. We
need to demonstrate that to the world by using it to build better mousetraps
rather than try to convince through academic arguments. I think that the
development of some real-world apps with a little "Ada Inside" sticker in
the corner would do a lot more to promote Ada than anything else. Is anybody
out there building products with Ada to sell to people and generate jobs? If
not, Ada will become just a language of academic interest with lots of
academic arguments surrounding it.

MDC
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Richard Riehle <richard@adaworks.com> wrote in message
news:3E5EDCB1.C841AFDD@adaworks.com...
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> Ada is in something of a decline.  That is unfortunate.  However,
> new people are discovering it and recognizing its expressive
> power and its virtues over competing technologies.   If it is
> to make a comeback, it will have to be because those who choose
> to use it are able to create excellent software and the results of
> their work is discovered by others.   This is possible because
> Ada, in its current form, is still a better  technology for software
> development than the competing technologies, the popularity
> of those competing technologies notwithstanding.
>