Where's Waldo? Where's Ada?

Where's Waldo? Where's Ada?

[Gregory Aharonian]

   Yet one more news article illustrating the failure of the Ada publicity
campaign.  From the October 1, 1994 issue of Datamation, page 26.

	What? You mean C++ is outdated technology already?  Well,
	maybe not outdated, but you can definitely count it as a
	mature development language now.  So says application
	development guru Ed Yourdon, creator of the Yourdon
	methodology and editor of "Application Development Strategies".
	Yourdon says growth in the use of object-oriented C++
	development language has finally leveled off, now that
	about 40% of all programmers use it as the language of choice.
              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
        The remaining 60% include old-line ANSI C and COBOL, as well
 	as New Age developers using OO 4GLs; Powerbuilder, Visual Basic;
	and as Yourdon notes, "Souped up versions of Smalltalk like
	IBM's VisualAge."  Yourdon can't shake his traditionalist
	prejudices, though. He still think COBOL has a chance in the
	New Age IS chop.  "The dark horse in the language race is 
	OO COBOL or COBOL++", he says.......

   Once again yet one more software industry person talking about programming
languages where in theory mention of Ada should fit in.  But why talk about
a language with no future, thanks to its handlers?  Why talk about a language
that no one ever tries to inform you about?

Greg Aharonian

Re: Where's Waldo? Where's Ada?

[Robert Dewar]

"But why talk about a language with no future ...."

Why indeed, if you feel that way Greg, I have a great idea: follow your
own good advice!