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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,e29c511c2b08561c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kingdon@harvey.cyclic.com (Jim Kingdon) Subject: Re: Is the "Ada mandate" being reconsidered? Date: 1996/06/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 161036745 sender: kingdon@harvey.cyclic.com references: <96061717021600@psavax.pwfl.com> organization: very little newsgroups: comp.lang.ada 17 jun 1996 17: 02:16 -0400 Date: 1996-06-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: > Wouldn't quality products clearly advertising their implementation > do a lot to persuade people that Ada is a "real" language capable > of "serious" development and thus be worthy of consideration? If by advertising you mean "publicly announcing", lots of projects have done that. There are success stories at: http://lglwww.epfl.ch/Ada/Ammo/Success/success.html http://www.sgi.com/Products/DevMagic/success/JEOL.html http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/usage/Welcome.html Mentioning Ada use in the documentation or startup screens of the programs might help promote Ada, but of course that would only reach the people who are using those programs. Another good promotion idea is to write applets using Ada compiled to Java bytecode, and mention the fact that they are written in Ada (see http://sw-eng.falls-church.va.us/AdaIC/java/Welcome.html for lots more information on that). > I know I have little trouble spotting the C/C++ based apps - > they're the ones that die with mysterious segmentation violations > or memory access errors because of abused pointers or array > accesses that aren't range limited. Uh, be careful of overhyping Ada. While there are obvious benefits to a "nonmysterious" CONSTRAINT_ERROR over a mysterious segmentation violation, neither one is the kind of thing which users really want to see.