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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wn14feed!worldnet.att.net!bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: anon@anon.org (anon) Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? Reply-To: anon@anon.org (anon) References: <7744bf.vg4.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1188580722.187449.288030@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com> X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 2.0 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:14:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.64.102.229 X-Complaints-To: abuse@worldnet.att.net X-Trace: bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1188800086 12.64.102.229 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:14:46 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:14:46 GMT Organization: AT&T Worldnet Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1664 Date: 2007-09-03T06:14:46+00:00 List-Id: Actually, back in the 80s and 90s the programmer could write a program or library in C, COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, or etc. But first the programmer had to write the code in Ada for any company dealing with the US government. What most programmers did not like is to write the code twice, first in Ada, then in the designed language of their choice. They wanted creative management over their own projects and not wasting their time in re-wrtting the program. But what these programmers forgot, was that the customer and some times the boss (in this case US government, or contracts with the US) has the final word on how the job is done. Even this rule even exist today. If the customer wants C++, then you write the code in C++. If they say JAVA, you do JAVA, else you find find another job. Only if you own and pay for the complete aspects of the project, do you get to choose the language you will use in the project. In , Gary Scott writes: > >But part of the issue has been unhappiness of the programmers >themselves. When told that they would have to program in Ada, the C >programmers were turning down job offers. Not because they couldn't >pick up Ada, but because they wanted to keep their C skills polished in >case they found a better position elsewhere. You do get rusty from >non-use, and you fall behind the latest standards over time. > > >-- > >Gary Scott >mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net >