Re: Current status of Ada?

[Markus E L <development-2006-8ecbb5cc8aREMOVETHIS@ANDTHATm-e-leypold.de>]

Adam Beneschan wrote:

> On Aug 31, 7:25 am, <adawo...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>> I used to do a lot of training and consulting for Lockheed and CSC related
>> to the Aegis project.   Soon after the Paige memo, Lockheed dictated that
>> the software for Aegis would be written in C++ instead of Ada.  Almost all
>> training in Ada stopped, and the programmers were given intensive training
>> in C++.   I told everyone that it was a big mistake, but my advice was of
>> little interest to those who were already biased toward C++.   The answer
>> was, "We can find C++ programmers right out of university CS programs,
>> but no one teaches Ada in CS."
>
> Sigh...  My initial reaction to this is that this thinking is just
> totally wrong-headed, and for reasons having nothing to do with the
> languages involved.  I frankly wouldn't expect good results from
> *anyone* who can program in language X because it's what they learned
> in college but couldn't pick up language Y; to me, I wouldn't trust
> someone like that to have a real understanding of "software" or
> "programming", and because of that I wouldn't expect them to write
> good software no matter how good language X is, even if it were Ada.
> Ada is not a good enough language to make up for a fundamental lack of
> software engineering understanding.
>
> But I could be way off base.

No. This was approximately my reaction when I read "can find C++
programmers right out of university".

Regards -- Markus