From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian)
Subject: Where's Waldo? Where's Ada?
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 1994 17:34:23 GMT
Date: 1994-10-14T17:34:23+00:00 [thread overview]
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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 You mean C++ is outdated technology already?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maybe not outdated, but you can definitely count it as a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
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