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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!17g2000prr.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Maciej Sobczak Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 00:58:47 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.3.40.82 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1299666261 1905 127.0.0.1 (9 Mar 2011 10:24:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 17g2000prr.googlegroups.com; posting-host=83.3.40.82; posting-account=bMuEOQoAAACUUr_ghL3RBIi5neBZ5w_S User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18949 Date: 2011-03-09T00:58:47-08:00 List-Id: On 8 Mar, 23:23, Lucretia wrote: > I'm just wondering what it would take for a company to choose Ada as > their next implementation language? Three things: 1. Knowledge. Most companies do not even know that Ada exists (really!). Somebody has to tell them, but if nobody internally has this knowledge and people do not look for knowledge on their own, then who is going to tell them? 2. Availability of resource. This is not about people on the job market that are waiting to be employed, but about people that are already working for the company - are they willing to learn Ada? (but before that, see 1. above) 3. Availability of reasonably robust and up to date compilers. Unfortunately things are very bad for Ada in this regard - compilers are either bug-ridden or outdated. The 1. and 2. above are internal and can be solved by the company. The 3. above is external and in my opinion is the most important problem to be solved. -- Maciej Sobczak http://www.inspirel.com/