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From: milod@netcom.com (John DiCamillo)
Subject: Is Ada the future? [was: Is C++ the future?]
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 1994 20:08:58 GMT
Date: 1994-09-29T20:08:58+00:00
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The original question was, "Is C/C++ the future?"  The
answer is "probably not" (modulo side discussions on
"the future of what?").  Although C and C++ may reason-
ably be considered "the present" for the same sorts of
applications and markets that Ada is intended to target,
they are not the future state of the art for those mar-
kets.

The new question is, "Is *Ada* the future?" -- for those
same applications and markets.  And the answer is, again,
"probably not."  Although Ada is (arguably) technically
superior to C++ in many regards, it is not a *sufficient*
improvement as to warrant abandoning C++ as a language of
choice.  In other words, it would not be cost effective
for most orginizations (that have a choice) to dump their
investment in C++ and switch to Ada9x.

The future will be some new language (or an enhanced ver-
sion of some existing language) that solves new problems
in ways that C++ and Ada can not.

Convince me that I'm wrong.

More's the point (if dual-use is to succeed), convince
commercial development companies that I'm wrong.

-- 
    c'iao,
    milo
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