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-Thread: 103376,c1400b61b3f80c1e X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country? Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 05:09:07 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87d4pr6413.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <47e0fc15$0$89167$157c6196@dreader1.cybercity.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1205928547 5581 127.0.0.1 (19 Mar 2008 12:09:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:09:07 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: e23g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040924,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:20482 Date: 2008-03-19T05:09:07-07:00 List-Id: Thomas wrote: > Ludovic Brenta wrote: > > Not many countries build jet airplanes, satellites, or nuclear power > > plants. These are the countries where you're likely to find the most > > Ada software engineers, because that's where Ada came from. > > I personally, from a beginners point of view, find it sad that this very > competent language seems "stuck" in the world of satellites and nuclear > power plants. I agree with you and I am trying to do my part to solve this problem, as a few other people here on comp.lang.ada. I hope more and more people start spreading the word. Robert Dewar does an excellent job (he writes a new article in various publications every couple of weeks or so) but, unfortunately, his position as CEO of AdaCore sometimes undermines his credibility. Slashdot-type people are all too quick to dismiss his articles as pure PR, while at the same time buying Sun's PR about Java. That's why Ada needs grass-roots support from Enthusiasts. -- Ludovic Brenta. Ada - if it's good enough for nuclear submarines, then it's good enough for me.