Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project?

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

Le Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:36:23 +0100, Marco <prenom_nomus@yahoo.com> a écrit:

> On Wednesday, March 9, 2011 1:58:47 AM UTC-7, Maciej Sobczak wrote:
>
>> Three things:
>>
>> 1. Knowledge. Most companies do not even know that Ada exists
>> (really!).
>    I agree most folks think it is dead or dying.
At least its concepts may not be so much dying. I currently reading an  
overview of the design principle of the old ECMAScript 4 project (a typed  
JavaScript for short), and it appears to use the same kind of  
orthogonality as Ada do (not overloading the class concept). It does not  
use class for hiding, it use… packages and namespaces!

Quoted from “Proposed ECMAScript 4th Edition – Language Overview” [2007]:

    Privacy.

    Modularity, name hiding, and library construction are supported
    by packages and namespaces, which control access to names and—together
    with the type system—provide for robust APIs between separately
    implemented modules.

When I read this, I straight away though, “there is a taste of Ada here” :)

You see, the philosophy not entirely dying in the end.

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