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-Thread: 103376,f49c8f164340c377 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newscon04.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.net!newsdst01.news.prodigy.net!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr12.news.prodigy.net.POSTED!cfe18fef!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Organization: Home User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Current status of Ada? References: <7744bf.vg4.ln@hunter.axlog.fr> <1188580722.187449.288030@m37g2000prh.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.94.33.193 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr12.news.prodigy.net 1188835934 ST000 68.94.33.193 (Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:12:14 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:12:14 EDT X-UserInfo1: SCSYQN_@FS@]RV@[WBHB^WHAAJYFBL@MAHU^_BAMEH]TCDYG^WH[AACY@TZZXQ[KS^ESKCJLOF_J_NGAWNTG^_XGTNTAHULK[X[NRTC@G\P^PLT_OCBRHUO@@TBQZDZMHD[YZ@NLXQXIWMOSXT_KOLK^^CXFF\WHMI^C@EGA_[FXAQ@E^TGNMUXGYNS[QQVL Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:12:14 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:1702 Date: 2007-09-03T16:12:14+00:00 List-Id: anon wrote: > Actually, back in the 80s and 90s the programmer could write a program or > library in C, COBOL, FORTRAN, PASCAL, or etc. But first the programmer > had to write the code in Ada for any company dealing with the US > government. > > What most programmers did not like is to write the code twice, first in > Ada, then in the designed language of their choice. They wanted creative > management over their own projects and not wasting their time in re-wrtting > the program. But what these programmers forgot, was that the customer and > some times the boss (in this case US government, or contracts with the US) > has the final word on how the job is done. > > Even this rule even exist today. If the customer wants C++, then you write > the code in C++. If they say JAVA, you do JAVA, else you find find another > job. > > Only if you own and pay for the complete aspects of the project, do you get > to choose the language you will use in the project. True. My point was however that (and Java wasn't even on the radar screen) the size of the employment market for C was much larger. Of course they programmed in Jovial, Fortran, C, Ada, whatever was dictated. But they weren't happy with the fact that their commercial friends made fun of them for programming in Jovial or Fortran or Ada. > > > In , Gary Scott writes: > >>But part of the issue has been unhappiness of the programmers >>themselves. When told that they would have to program in Ada, the C >>programmers were turning down job offers. Not because they couldn't >>pick up Ada, but because they wanted to keep their C skills polished in >>case they found a better position elsewhere. You do get rusty from >>non-use, and you fall behind the latest standards over time. >> >> >>-- >> >>Gary Scott >>mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net >> > > -- Gary Scott mailto:garylscott@sbcglobal dot net Fortran Library: http://www.fortranlib.com Support the Original G95 Project: http://www.g95.org -OR- Support the GNU GFortran Project: http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/index.html If you want to do the impossible, don't hire an expert because he knows it can't be done. -- Henry Ford