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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <nospam@gsg.eds.com>
To: Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: Is Ada likely to survive ?
Date: 1997/07/21
Date: 1997-07-21T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <33D3EAAC.2BB4@gsg.eds.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.869288177@merv


Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> Rakesh says
> 
> <<I appreciate that with the over 50 million lines of US DOD Ada code that
> exist and the numerous other Ada projects around the world,  Ada will be
> around for quite a while (to maintain all this code).   However, I am
> looking at it more from the point of view of new projects.

...

> I don't think you need to worry about having Ada programmers around to
> maintain your code in ten years. If you are trying to look ahead ten
> years to see what will be the popular language-du-jour in the year 2007,
> I think that is an idle excercise. 

I concurr; he doesn't have a SNOBOL's chance <g> of predicting what
language
 will be top dog in ten years, so he's better off trying to decide what 
language will let him do the best job now.

> Robert Dewar

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                        Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
                        Senior Software SE

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  parent reply	other threads:[~1997-07-21  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 78+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1997-07-18  0:00 Is Ada likely to survive ? safetran
1997-07-18  0:00 ` Stanley Allen
1997-07-19  0:00 ` robin
1997-07-23  0:00   ` Adam Beneschan
1997-07-22  0:00     ` Nasser
1997-07-23  0:00   ` Valerio Bellizzomi
1997-08-01  0:00     ` robin
1997-08-02  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
     [not found]         ` <5s6q6b$f3$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-08-09  0:00           ` Ejon
1997-08-10  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-11  0:00             ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-17  0:00             ` robin
1997-08-17  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-22  0:00                 ` robin
     [not found]                   ` <5u3c69$5tj$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-08-28  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-30  0:00                     ` robin
1997-09-08  0:00                       ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-09-17  0:00                         ` robin
1997-07-19  0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1997-07-21  0:00   ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-28  0:00     ` W. Wesley Groleau x4923
1997-07-29  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-29  0:00         ` dcw
1997-07-30  0:00         ` Steve Jones - JON
1997-07-30  0:00       ` HARRY R. ERWIN
1997-07-31  0:00         ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-31  0:00           ` HARRY R. ERWIN
1997-07-31  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-02  0:00             ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-02  0:00               ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-03  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-01  0:00           ` William Clodius
1997-08-01  0:00           ` William Clodius
     [not found]             ` <5s6ng4$rq7$1@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au>
1997-08-07  0:00               ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-11  0:00                 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-08-11  0:00                   ` Brian Rogoff
1997-07-31  0:00         ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-31  0:00           ` Brian Rogoff
1997-08-01  0:00             ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-08-03  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-05  0:00                 ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
1997-07-19  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-20  0:00   ` Paul Van Bellinghen
1997-07-21  0:00   ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [this message]
1997-07-20  0:00 ` Odo Wolbers
1997-07-21  0:00 ` safetran
1997-07-22  0:00   ` Jon S Anthony
1997-07-22  0:00     ` Nasser
1997-07-23  0:00       ` Jon S Anthony
1997-07-27  0:00       ` jorgie
1997-07-28  0:00         ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-21  0:00 ` Anonymous
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
1997-08-04  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-08-06  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-06  0:00   ` HARRY R. ERWIN
1997-08-06  0:00     ` rodney
1997-08-10  0:00   ` Fergus Henderson
1997-08-10  0:00     ` Robert A Duff
1997-08-11  0:00     ` Jerry van Dijk
     [not found] ` <01bca387$42ffbce0$18a9f5cd@asip120>
1997-08-13  0:00   ` HARRY R. ERWIN
     [not found]     ` <3404215f.0@news.uni-ulm.de>
1997-08-27  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-13  0:00   ` Mark A Biggar
1997-08-07  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-08-10  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-11  0:00   ` Richard Kenner
1997-08-11  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-11  0:00 ` John English
1997-08-14  0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-96
1997-08-16  0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-17  0:00   ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-08-17  0:00     ` No Spam
1997-08-19  0:00       ` John English
1997-08-19  0:00     ` John English
1997-08-19  0:00     ` Mike Stark
1997-08-27  0:00       ` Jerry van Dijk
1997-08-19  0:00   ` John English
1997-08-24  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1997-08-26  0:00       ` Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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