RE: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..

["Robert C. Leif" <rleif@rleif.com>]

This is what Microsoft would do. All one needs to do is to employ XML syntax
and Ada semantics. It will be both very verbose and sexy. If we model it
after SPARK, we can hype it as a new marvel of software engineering. A good
name would be XML#. 
Bob Leif
-----Original Message-----
From: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org [mailto:comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org]
On Behalf Of Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 9:57 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: Re: Anybody in US using ADA ? One silly idea..

Marin David Condic wrote:
> I believe Pratt & Whitney is still using Ada for engine controls. At least
> some of them. As one who is working on the engines for the JSF, I can tell
> you that those controls are still in Ada - for the time being. (Don't know
> what will happen when they go into full scale development.)
> 
> Its a shame to see that many in the DoD arena are abandoning Ada because
> "Everybody else is using C++". In this area, Ada does not tend to suffer
so
> much from lack of large libraries or other development enhancers since
> hardware is often custom built and/or software development is not the long
> pole in the tent. Here Ada's faster development time and reduced defect
> characteristics can truly stand out. I'm afraid I don't know how to
overcome
> the "follow the crowd" mentality here. ...

Maybe what needs to be done is to form a brand new committee, to design
a spashy new language that basically implements the same features, with
similar syntax (but not too obviously). Then give it a splashy new name
after a popular young female (no programmer experience required), and
call it something like "Shania". Make sure it gets included in .Net, and
have the Universities preach about it and.. world domination!

;-)

Just a thought.

-- 
Warren W. Gay VE3WWG
http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg