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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102b75,501ec19d1d81daee X-Google-Attributes: gid102b75,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,db9a11afb3da4240 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-26 15:29:41 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mailgate.org!mygate.mailgate.org!129.8.166.54!not-for-mail From: "Kent Paul Dolan" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.arch Subject: Re: Language support for flexible handling of system-detected errors. Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG Message-ID: References: <3C9D2202.7030200@worldnet.att.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.8.166.54 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.mailgate.org 1017174856 19730 129.8.166.54 (Wed Mar 27 00:29:40 2002) X-Complaints-To: abuse@mailgate.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 23:29:40 +0000 (UTC) Injector-Info: news.mailgate.org; posting-host=129.8.166.54; posting-account=48257; posting-date=1017174856 User-Agent: Mailgate Web Server X-URL: http://mygate.mailgate.org/mynews/comp/comp.lang.ada/e0939ce1d74439af8f7424a0b2c6a1ef.48257%40mygate.mailgate.org Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21704 comp.arch:25940 Date: 2002-03-26T23:29:40+00:00 List-Id: "Jim Rogers" wrote: > Adam Tissa wrote: > > Actually, many of these systems now use C or C++ because of: > > 1. Management reluctance to approve the use of a dying language. > > ( Heck, how many new projects are done in COBOL ? ) > > 2. Difficulty finding and hiring Ada programmers. I don't think so, I'm surely not alone in applying for hundreds of Ada openings to no avail. > Actually, management usually has no knowledge of Ada whatsoever. > They choose C or C++ because they have always used C or C++. Well, no. Just a few hours ago, I exchanged email with a recruiter trying to fill a DoD programming slot for a C++ programmer for a C3I application. I asked "why isn't that being done in Ada?" [Being confrontational about lack of DoD Ada use is why I am no longer a contractor for the DoD.] I got back the answer "my clients moved away from Ada to C++ quite some time ago"; probably roughly the afternoon of the day the morning of which DoD welched on its Ada mandate. So lack of awareness of Ada (and how much better it is than C++ for writing high reliability applications) is not really the answer, though your further reference to software fads probably is closer to the mark. xanthian [Does it give you a warm fuzzy feeling to know that your security is being protected by a military deliberately using inferior software because its leaders didn't have the guts to enforce a mandate to use superior software? Me either.] -- Posted via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG