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=1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: to.reply@read.my.sig (Rick Thorne) Subject: Re: Ada rotting? (was: What ada 83 compiler is *best*) Date: 1998/12/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 419672947 References: <366822F5.D80741EE@XXX_nospam_stelnj.com> Organization: Some, but limited Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <366822F5.D80741EE@XXX_nospam_stelnj.com>, job_unspam@no.love.for.spam.alphasoft-inc.com wrote: > If I may quote the movie Real Genius "There are many decaffeinated > brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing." ;-) Thanx for this! I actually have a friend or two who said the same thing when them saw my responses here. If I may offer a quote of my own: "The greatest thing my children taught me was to laugh at myself." I'm laughing. That's good, isn't it? > I still put the question to the group: > Are there statistics which show the number of new and/or legacy > Ada developement/research projects in the US and world-wide? My question too, sir. Like the rest of you, I have a mortgage to pay and children to feed. I also want to retire in the next 10-15 years (I'm 40). I really want to be where the action is, and I'm simply unconvinced that Ada's doing anything but going away. Can ANYONE offer me anything to the contrary? I'm sincerely interested in hearing otherwise. I'm an experienced Ada man who has moved on to the lush, green (if ugly) C++ Pastures and I'm grazing blissfully in the Javalands as well. I don't see the demand for these languages doing anything but increasing, and I see nothing but the opposite for Ada. Can ANYONE offer me evidence to the contrary? Thank you for your respectful answers to my OWN caffinated responses. Sincerely, -- ? Rick Thorne ? "I'm quite illiterate, ? ? software engineer by day ? but I read a lot" ? ? harried father of two by night ? J. D. Salinger ? ? rick.thorne@lmco.com ? ? ? http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/6816/ ?