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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,1f00e12fa1e87526 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!news.enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Dr Dobbs dismisses Ada Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 20:18:07 -0400 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <42891b5f$0$31069$626a14ce@news.free.fr> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1116289117 24662 212.85.156.195 (17 May 2005 00:18:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 00:18:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org To: gregg Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <42891b5f$0$31069$626a14ce@news.free.fr> (greggNOSPAMarbage@NOSPAMfree.WANTEDfr's message of "Tue, 17 May 2005 00:15:28 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (windows-nt) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11054 Date: 2005-05-16T20:18:07-04:00 gregg writes: > Stephen Leake wrote: >> In the May 2005 issue of Dr Dobbs magazine, the "embedded space" >> column by Ed Nisley has a brutal dismissal of Ada: >> the entire cadre of Ada programmers is reaching retirement age >> with no replacements on tap. > > He dismisses C/C++ as well. Well, of course. No-one thinks those languages are good for writing DO-178B code. > Where did you write to ? The editor; jerickson@ddj.com -- -- Stephe