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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7bcba1db9ed24fa7 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-08 02:01:39 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!skynet.be!freenix!wanadoo.fr!not-for-mail From: Pascal Obry Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is ada dead? Date: 08 Jul 2001 11:01:05 +0200 Organization: Home - http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry Message-ID: References: <3B460DA9.C2965042@ix.netcom.com> <9ff447f2.0107061757.34ca0723@posting.google.com> <3b47806a_4@news3.prserv.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: mix-caen-107-4-112.abo.wanadoo.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: wanadoo.fr 994582898 18935 193.250.38.112 (8 Jul 2001 09:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@wanadoo.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Jul 2001 09:01:38 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.103 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:9630 Date: 2001-07-08T09:01:38+00:00 List-Id: "Andrzej Lewandowski" writes: > You are in a good society. I was once teaching Real Time Programming and was > using Ada. This was at not that bad U.S. University. Once, after the end of semester > students brought to the Dean collection of Classified from local newspapers and > asked him to find at least one job as that would require Ada. Dean was smart enough > to send them away. And was smart enough to have a nice chat with me. And I was > smart enough to spend the whole summer converting my course from Ada to C. I hope you understand that Ada is not only the syntax, right ? Any good programmer should be able to switch from one language to another in a couple of days. But with Ada you have certainly been taught the way to handle large piece of software, how to structure a software and many other software engeenering princilples. At least I hope :) All this is rarely well understood using other languages. Another way to see that is that learning Ada was certainly a very good investment for you enven if you don't use it today. Just my 2 cents, Pascal. -- --|------------------------------------------------------ --| Pascal Obry Team-Ada Member --| 45, rue Gabriel Peri - 78114 Magny Les Hameaux FRANCE --|------------------------------------------------------ --| http://perso.wanadoo.fr/pascal.obry --| --| "The best way to travel is by means of imagination"