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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,60e2922351e0e780 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-11-16 18:31:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: 18k11tm001@sneakemail.com (Russ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Re-Marketing Ada (was "With and use") Date: 16 Nov 2003 18:31:10 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <3FB0B57D.6070906@noplace.com> <3FB22125.1040807@noplace.com> <3FB3751D.5090809@noplace.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.194.87.148 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1069036270 14468 127.0.0.1 (17 Nov 2003 02:31:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 02:31:10 +0000 (UTC) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:2552 Date: 2003-11-16T18:31:10-08:00 List-Id: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" wrote in message news:... > I think most of us would agree that Ada was ahead of its time > when it came out. By 1995, I believe the "market" had probably > already accepted C/C++ as the dominant language, largely due to > its widespread use in operating systems (UNIX + NT), and major > applications. Even in 1995 (including up to present) the kind of > thing you hear now is "I remember Ada". Immediatly the association > is that it is "old", even though C is just as old (younger folks > often havn't even heard of it, unless the University taught it). My experience is that many if not most software professionals have no idea what Ada 95 can actually do. They don't know, for example, that it has built-in multitasking and support for distributed systems. Many of them don't even know it is object oriented. Part of this is due to the fact that Ada 83 was considerably less evolved, and, as you point out, it was well along in its decline before Ada 95 came out. I guess most programmers consider Ada to be roughly in the category of Fortran, both in capability and popularity. How do we get the word out about Ada? I don't know, but do I know that Ada is not the only superior technology that is being squandered due to ignorance. Nuclear power is another classic example of a superior technology that is being squandered due to abysmal ignorance. If you have some spare time, go to my web pages on it at http://RussP.org/nucpower.htm , then click on "Some Amazing Facts about Nuclear Power". I bet you'll be surprised at what you discover. (OK, that ends my off-topic rant.)