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: 103376,42490cad53ee37fa X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!proxad.net!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 20:59:10 -0500 Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: <87f5a614.0503121108.5b245eaf@posting.google.com> 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 1110679176 36128 212.85.156.195 (13 Mar 2005 01:59:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 01:59:36 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: <87f5a614.0503121108.5b245eaf@posting.google.com> (svaa@ciberpiula.net's message of "12 Mar 2005 11:08:11 -0800") 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:9277 Date: 2005-03-12T20:59:10-05:00 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. -- -- Stephe