From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,c406e0c4a6eb74ed X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!freenix!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: "Alexander E. Kopilovich" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:02:21 +0400 (MSD) Organization: Cuivre, Argent, Or Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1093723274 83271 212.85.156.195 (28 Aug 2004 20:01:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:01:14 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: In-Reply-To: ; from Georg Bauhaus at Sat, 28 Aug 2004 10:20:55 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mail/@ [v2.44 MSDOS] X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:3123 Date: 2004-08-29T00:02:21+04:00 Georg Bauhaus wrote: > Quite a few people I've met didn't like Ada because of they have > seen it as associated with the political, military, and industrial > organisations mentioned in Richard Riehle's posting. Indeed, > if computer languages and compilers do not care about the purpose > of a program, people do. (This is a reason why I'm somewhat uncomfortable > using Ada, sometimes. The military and the weapon makers seem to > be so close... ;-) As far as I know, many programmers (and even many software engineers) do not care much abour military use of their software, but they do care much about the psychological issues, which immediately surround their everyday's work. And this is exactly the reputation of the military and the weapon makers regarding those matters, which tells to many programmers that they better should not come too near to those areas. These people generally aren't pacifists at all, but they guess that it will be hard and unpleasant for them to maintain compatibility with military procedural logic and military customer's habits - and they do not feel necessary to put themselves into that environment in peace time. Alexander Kopilovich aek@vib.usr.pu.ru Saint-Petersburg Russia