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: 103376,583275b6950bf4e6 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-02-28 04:25:29 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!wn13feed!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.217.77.102!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.atl.earthlink.net!harp.news.atl.earthlink.net!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: the Ada mandate, and why it collapsed and died Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 07:24:21 -0500 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Message-ID: References: <3E5EDCB1.C841AFDD@adaworks.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: d1.56.b5.0e X-Server-Date: 28 Feb 2003 12:25:28 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:34716 Date: 2003-02-28T12:25:28+00:00 List-Id: 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 -- ====================================================================== Marin David Condic I work for: http://www.belcan.com/ My project is: http://www.jsf.mil/ Send Replies To: m c o n d i c @ a c m . o r g "Going cold turkey isn't as delicious as it sounds." -- H. Simpson ====================================================================== Richard Riehle wrote in message news:3E5EDCB1.C841AFDD@adaworks.com... > > 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. >