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-Thread: 103376,677963b1aa23e668 X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: localhost@example.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: What's stopping you from using Ada for your next commercial project? Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 10:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 1fBP04fsPqTkkcvlQyUnMA.user.speranza.aioe.org X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:18952 Date: 2011-03-09T10:39:15+00:00 List-Id: Somebody else already pointed out the difficulty of finding qualified people. Most companies already pay for toolchains so you need a "good" argument like how much money will you save today, tomorrow is too far away in todays economic climate. Why should we pay big money for Ada when we can already get Java for basically nothing and C++ for cheap and we can find Java and C++ coders for a pittance and they're worth every penny ;) but Ada people are expensive. Like most things in business its about money and not quality. Ada is going to remain a niche language because only where quality is important (planes not crashing) or other projects where they get to use other peoples money (government contracts) nobody can really afford Ada no matter how good it is. And the Ada toolchains are not cheap.