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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: 1998/12/08 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 420115521 References: <366822F5.D80741EE@XXX_nospam_stelnj.com> <366C2564.1C17E3EE@pwfl.com> <366D56C8.B0F0D6F0@pwfl.com> Organization: Some, but limited Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-08T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <366D56C8.B0F0D6F0@pwfl.com>, diespammer@pwfl.com wrote: > I appreciate the compliment. Let me say this about the market appeal: > Ada has become entrenched rather nicely in certain parts of the market > and is not going to go away any time soon. [-] Excellent point, Marin, and a very encouraging one at that. What you're identifying here is the fact that Ada has a very stable niche market. The same can be said of other excellent software technologies: Smalltalk, LISP, Yourden/DeMarco structured design/analysis, etc. This IS encouraging considering how viable some of these niches can be and often are. There is considerable momentum in these areas; I agree and willingly conceed this point. I'm still interested in knowing about Ada in more commercial non-aerospace markets. Anyone got news?!? > So while Ada may not be the language in which people are currently > building Internet applications, that doesn't mean it is going to > disappear. Very well put. OK, OK - Ada's back in the tool box. Granted, it'll be a less used tool for now, and I guarantee I'll need to sharpen it 'cuz all my Java and C++ tools are banging it around, but it's back. > As for career choices, keep in mind that a good software engineer is not > good only in one language. ... or only one element of the lifecycle. As much as I love programming, my specialty is really UML/OMT OOD/OOA, and those are wonderful tool very much in demand in the software engineering world AND much more at the heart of the software engineering productivity crisis. I agree again with you, Marin - there's more to our profession than a single language or any OTHER topic under the software engineering umbrella. Thanx for the good ideas - hope I can return the favor another time. Rick -- ? 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/ ?