Re: will ada always be supported by gcc?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
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> leo.brewin@internode.on.net writes:
...
> To answer your subject line, "will ada always be supported by gcc?":
> I hope not ALWAYS.  ;-)  Surely 100 years from now, people will be using
> much better programming languages than the ones we have now, including
> Ada!

Crazy optimist. ;-)

100 years from now, there will be lots of people maintaining Fortran and 
COBOL programs from the 1960s. And C programs from the 1970s and 80s. Not so 
sure about Ada programs, but that's probably because they break so rarely 
that it will be hard to keep expertise around.

Of course, it is possible that computers themselves will have taken over all 
of these jobs. In which case, it will be the people that are redundant. But 
I think it is more likely that little will have changed on that front 
(because little has changed in how programs are written in the 30 years I've 
been in this business).

                                           Randy.