Re: Ada's Slide To Oblivion ...

["Jeffrey Creem" <jeff@thecreems.com>]

Don't forget to point out to the non-embedded people that there are very
nice Ada bindings available under windows for ALL COM libraries. This
is a big deal since there are thousands of libraries that have COM
interfaces.


"Adrian Hoe" <byhoe@greenlime.com> wrote in message
news:3C5B659A.7BAADE49@greenlime.com...
> Marin David Condic wrote:
> >
> > Like I said - it depends on what you want to count. We could discuss
that
> > until the cows come home. Clearly, some consumer-oriented box with 5000
> > lines of C code in it is not really in the same league with an F-22 with
> > millions of lines of Ada code in it. But last I heard the government was
> > only going to buy a few hundred F-22s over the project life whereas the
> > little 5000 line C doohickie might be selling in the millions of units.
So
> > which is the more "important" project and how would you stack them up
with
> > respect to which is the more "important" programming language for
embedded
> > systems?
> >
> > I still don't think that any way you want to count it that Ada is going
to
> > score as a major player in the embedded computing world anymore. It's
kind
> > of relegated to the "also ran" category - which is a shame because lots
of
> > people will admit that it really is a good language for embedded
computing.
> > There are just a lot of factors that hinder its success in this area.
> >
> > I think that as Ada continues to grow in the non-embedded fields it will
> > start encouraging more usage in the embedded world. Tools become more
> > prevalent and experience builds with it and along the way it will
trickle
> > into the embedded world. But it will be a slow process and it is
dependent
> > on how successfully Ada penetrates the more "normal" sorts of
application
> > development.
>
> More people are accepting Ada now, at least in my company (new staff).
> Ada will not have the glory of other development tools eg. C++ Builder,
> Delphi, etc. until much bindings are available for programmers'
> disposal. GtkAda and Glade are just the beginning. There is still a long
> way to go for Ada to be accepted in the non-embedded, business
> applications area.
>
> > MDC
>
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