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From: 8f27iw6z@canada.com (Tom)
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Subject: Re: Embedded Keynote Speaker Mentions Ada
Date: 21 Sep 2004 13:34:44 -0700
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Cesar Rabak <crabak@acm.org> wrote in message news:<414EE3A0.9080106@acm.org>...
> stephane richard escreveu:
>  > "Cesar Rabak" <crabak@acm.org> wrote in message
> [snipped]
> 
> Second, academia (the three amigos on UML, for example) abandoned the
> use of Ada in favor of C++ bringing a perceived vision of the "way to
> go" for less technically oriented people. Now, let me ask you: if you go
> to a newstand where fine IT magazines are sold what are the odds a
> manager sees CUJ or VisualBasic or perhaps a .Net mag, and what are the
> chances Ada is ever mentioned? And to finally blow the wollf dead most
> of the 'Research' and 'Advisory' firms when mention Ada send the message
> it is a 'niche' language or an 'ageing' technology not to be considered
> for new developements. . .
>
Where do you think that they might be getting that idea?  When I was
doing a quick search for information on Ada I put "Ada compilers" in
for the search term on google. I found a fair number of the most
popular web sites were not updated in the last several years. It does
not distill a lot of confidence in a computer language when the so
called enthusiasts can't even keep their web sites up to date.  If
this was not bad enough one of the Windows compiler distributors did
not even mention WindowsXP. The last operating system that they say
works with their compiler is Win95.  Come on, if the enthusiasts can't
stay up to date then what chance is there of convincing someone new to
Ada that it is not 'ageing' technology.