Re: Current status of Ada?

[Markus E L <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Steve Marotta wrote:

> On Aug 22, 4:44 am, Maciej Sobczak <see.my.homep...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What I want to say is that every time a similar question is raised,
>> the Ada community tries to "pump up" or visually inflate itself by
>> mentioning some nebulous DoD or otherwise classified activity. This is
>> cheating - the Ada community is effectively as strong as the number of
>> people that are able and willing to talk about their experiences.
>> Everything that is outside of this is just as useful as hydrogen on
>> Jupiter.
>
> Thanks to everyone for their responses. To your point, Maciej, I
> should clarify the nature of my interest in Ada usage. I am not
> particularly interested in how much Ada is being used in brand-new
> code. I am more interested in knowing how much legacy Ada code the DoD
> or other government agencies are sitting on, either maintaining or
> using as-is.

I see, as Maciej Sobczak a problem in the method you have chosen: The
only thing you will know, is, how many responses you get. But you will
not know how representative this sample is and with which factors you
have to multiply your responses to find out how many projects there
are actually in the wild.

There are ways around this deficit but they are not cheap in terms of
resources invested.


Regards -- Markus