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,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,93a8020cc980d113 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:16:41 -0500 From: "Chip and Allie Orange" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1176150704.130880.248080@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: What is wrong with Ada? Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 21:14:01 -0400 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.35.222.233 X-Trace: sv3-jMxjwmrV09pHHmxcBTLvaZWxpc/AwafpwjrcRxV8Jgxl8X3KK/hYNHcEU4mbQPvc8J7varSfWzMo4TV!jmwhHJDLT6sk8ZrEusFQJ95/8MddoSkPD3B7/0WUZt7JbALvVgZ1j+xQ2hyASsC5F3DzGCrR2J5D!cPLOLpVMXOn7LZoxQ/Rzk5xOM1g6wA== X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.34 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14851 Date: 2007-04-09T21:14:01-04:00 List-Id: "martinbishop" wrote in message news:1176150704.130880.248080@l77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com... > I've never been scared of "non mainstream" languages, but I was > wondering, what is wrong with Ada? Why don't more people use it? > What > do most people think of it? To me, it seems like a nice, concise, and > safe language, but I haven't used it yet. > Hi Martin, I'm just now starting to learn Ada, but I've been "looking at it" for quite a while. I'd say the answer to your question is that no one uses it much, because, no one uses it much. My boss won't allow anything at work that isn't already being used by everyone else. A lot of software choices are made for more or less those reasons. As a corollary to this, it's impossible for us to hire anyone with Ada programming experience, as an entry level programmer, and hiring someone without experience in your software development systems of choice "just isn't done". Since what we have access to are endless visual studio programmers, that was used as an argument for what we should be using to develop with. The other reason I see is that it's not easily compatible with ActiveX, COM, .net, and all the other interfacing standards that development add-ons are sold for (in the Windows world). It's advantages of taking less effort, in the long term, to maintain a given project, are offset by having to "roll your own" everything in the beginning. Just a newbie's outside view, but maybe you'll want to do what I'm doing: jump in and begin preaching to the unconverted! Chip