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: 103376,998480123ade4649 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Received: by 10.68.28.135 with SMTP id b7mr995388pbh.8.1321919776503; Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:56:16 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Randy Brukardt" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: will ada always be supported by gcc? Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:56:12 -0600 Organization: Jacob Sparre Andersen Research & Innovation Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: static-69-95-181-76.mad.choiceone.net X-Trace: munin.nbi.dk 1321919775 8632 69.95.181.76 (21 Nov 2011 23:56:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@jacob-sparre.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 23:56:15 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Path: lh20ni3245pbb.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!news3.google.com!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!feed.ac-versailles.fr!news.ecp.fr!news.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!jacob-sparre.dk!ada-dk.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Xref: news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:14502 Date: 2011-11-21T17:56:12-06:00 List-Id: "Robert A Duff" wrote in message news:wcchb1xjfic.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com... > 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.