Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada?

[Stephen Leake <stephen_leake@acm.org>]

svaa@ciberpiula.net (svaa) writes:

> Yes, Ada is still running because of inertia, and because of intertia
> it still will run for a long time. But it's a fact that there are very
> little people interested in Ada, (companies, professional programmers,
> students or just curious). 

I was just at a talk by Rod Chapman of Praxis Critical Systems; they
sell SPARK and services using SPARK. They are growing, and several
other tool vendors are starting to support SPARK; Ilogix, for one.

SPARK is a statically analyzable subset of Ada; the safety and
security critical fields are beginning to realize that can save them
money.

AdaCore is also growing.

> You shouldn't need to read this article to realice that Ada is almost
> irrelevant, and that's the trend.

Hmm. Perhaps _you_ need to read some _other_ articles :).

> Why? How Ada has reach that point of irrelevance? what can be done to
> change the trend?

Pay attention to what's really going on.

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-- Stephe