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Subject: Re: Ada used in General Aviation (GA) applications?
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"Marin David Condic" <nobody@noplace.com> wrote in message
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> It wouldn't take too long if Ada focused in on a branch of software
> systems to which its existing strengths play and whos practitioners are
> not already Ada-haters. The embedded market already hates Ada with the
> white hot intensity of a thousand suns for a variety of historical
> reasons. In language surveys "Ada" ranks behind "Other" in languages
> used to program embedded systems. I'd *love* to see Ada get some nice
> share of the embedded market, but I think it is lost for the time being
> because it is too expensive in which to play and has too much historic
> resistance to overcome.

Ada's share of non-embedded markets is zero to any reasonable precision that
you want to use. I don't forsee that changing in any significant way (the
$25 I can put into marketing Ada and Claw isn't going to make any
difference). The only place it gets used is in larger embedded systems (like
avionics, ATC, etc.) But perhaps you are using some odd-ball definition of
"embedded"??

                   Randy.