From: sdcsvax!bob
Subject: What's Ada for: survey results
Date: Wed Feb 16 03:00:01 1983
Date: 1983-02-16T03:00:01+00:00 [thread overview]
Date: Sat Feb 12 23:50:36 1983
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A few weeks ago, I posted a survey to this group. I've been trying to
discover how successful Ada will be in the *COMMERCIAL* marketplace.
(The *MILITARY* success of Ada is assured by DoD edict.)
Thanks to those people who answered. I only received a few replies
(about a half dozen). Either we've got mailer problems, or hardly
anybody has plans!
Everyone who responded was enthusiastic, but these points were made:
* need Ada compilers for more machines
* existing compilers too slow
* not sure strong typing is a good idea
* also evaluating Pascal, C, and Modula-2
* there should be a strong market for Ada packages,
for instances interfaces to SPSS.
* package piracy should not be a serious problem
I suspect that the commercial market for Ada would be stronger if some
validated compilers were available.
Feel free to comment: the more, the merrier!
-- Bob Hofkin
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