Re: Who's using Ada in industry?

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This issue is easily resolved by simply adding a category for Software
Engineering Tools.   It is probably a good idea to have such a
category.

Richard Riehle
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"Niklas Holsti" <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> wrote in message 
news:47e4078f$0$23819$4f793bc4@news.tdc.fi...
> Michael Feldman wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> After several years of inactivity with the Ada project list,
>> I've started to maintain it actively again.
>
> Very good indeed.
>
>> I don't want to pad the list
>> with tools, compilers, libraries, etc., but rather to respond
>> to the question "who is actually using Ada in industry?".
>
> I suspect that this exclusion of the SW tool industry from the definition of 
> "industry" may focus the list on the traditional Ada application areas --  
> military and aerospace -- and exclude small or start-up Ada adopters in other 
> areas. This could reinforce prejudice against Ada in other areas and 
> especially in the SW tools area.
>
> I understand that a vendor of Ada compilers may be suspected of bias if the 
> vendor chooses to write the compilers in Ada. But the same should not happen 
> when a C compiler, or a language-neutral tool, is written in Ada. Moreover, I 
> believe that the reputation of Java has been boosted by the fact that many 
> tools for Java development are written in Java. Why should the same not be 
> true for Ada? If SW tool projects were listed under their own heading -- 
> perhaps as the last group -- they should not detract from the impact of the 
> other projects on the list.
>
> I admit that I am biased, as my own project (and that of at least one other 
> company in the same area, that I know of) are SW tools and thus apparently not 
> wanted on the list. Perhaps only large, expensive projects are wanted? In that 
> case it would be clearer to say so.
>
> -- 
> Niklas Holsti
> Tidorum Ltd
> niklas holsti tidorum fi
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