Re: Ada is getting more popular!

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:33:21 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
> It saved Ada, but GCC didn't save the market, which was almost dead
I do not even think so. What I am disappointed about with Ada in this  
context is that Ada could be a chance to do better… not to be more  
productive (I personally don't like a lot the target of always being more  
productive), but to do things better. But why one would invest itself  
using Ada, which as every one knows, does not even let you compile every  
thing right away as many would want, if this is for the same final result ?

Produce cheaper, implies less investment or compression of costs. It is  
even worse when you have to produce for free (by the way, many people even  
avoid such an adventure). If you have to produce for free, you better to  
it very quickly and with the less investment as possible, thus you better  
use C than Ada :(

This is in my opinion, one of the reason why Ada is so much less used in  
common software (which must be given for free, because authors don't have  
the choice) and near to only used in critical areas.

That is also why a hate a bit to always read Ada is a language for safety  
critical applications. I would like to say No, it is well suited for many  
thing else. Why common applications should not be designed well ? Does it  
requires to be a critical application to be readable (while to be  
readable, Ada is not enough, this requires other stuff) and well design ?  
I hope not.

Ada should be used even in these other area, but it cannot, because the  
authors will simply feel “why bother doing better if doing better will not  
make me better ?”

And so you have 99% of applications designed in C (which does not even  
support such a basic thing as real modularity) and Ada restricted to the  
only niches where consumers agree this is worth some investment and  
given-for-free is not the main or even commonly only requirement.

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