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=-1.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,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!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: NOACE- End of the road for Ada? Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:33:41 +0300 (MSK) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1110431487 60979 212.85.156.195 (10 Mar 2005 05:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:11:27 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from Michael Card at Thu, 10 Mar 2005 02:33:15 GMT X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.45 MSDOS] 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: , X-Original-Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9010 Date: 2005-03-10T07:33:41+03:00 Michael Card wrote: >My question is this: why are so many in the DoD itself and the >contractors world opposed to Ada? Think about China. Guess, which complex and purposeful software is easier to investigate, modify/adapt, port to other equipment/environment etc. - that is written in Ada or that in C++ and/or Java? Imaging yourself being a mainland Chinese and working in some military outfit and periodicaly receiving USA military software source code (which comes from the sources certainly unknown to you). What would you prefer in this position - Ada source code or C++/Java source code? Then, even for your own (not stolen) code, you'll never have a choice of a programming language - it will be prescribed to you, and those who choose it inevitably will look at the world leader and follow it - then you'll get what the world leader choose... but without many auxiliaries and various supports that those working for the former have.