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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,1116ece181be1aea X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-09-07 16:17:42 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: chris User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030903 Thunderbird/0.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Is the Writing on the Wall for Ada? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 00:21:34 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.98.236.164 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1062976661 81.98.236.164 (Mon, 08 Sep 2003 00:17:41 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 00:17:41 BST Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:42251 Date: 2003-09-08T00:21:34+02:00 List-Id: Robert C. Leif wrote: > This is very interesting because the C language market will eventually go to > C#. Why? That's what they said about Cpp and Java. It hasn't happened yet. And C# is constrained to the M$ platform for the moment. I haven't heard of anyone seriously considering developing apps in C# for Linux, nor Unix. That would be interesting. > The DoD is continuing in its blunders. It would be very interesting to > know if other countries were dumb enough to follow the US DoD's lead. What would you rather have them work with if they wouldn't work in Ada, C(++) or Java?