Re: Are there noticable differences in Ada acceptance by country?

On Mar 19, 8:51 am, "framefri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta ha scritto:
>
> > Thomas wrote:
> > > Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> > > > Not many countries build jet airplanes, satellites, or nuclear
power
> > > > plants.  These are the countries where you're likely to find the
most
> > > > Ada software engineers, because that's where Ada came from.
>
> > > I personally, from a beginners point of view, find it sad that this
very
> > > competent language seems "stuck" in the world of satellites and
nuclear
> > > power plants.
>
> > I agree with you and I am trying to do my part to solve this problem,
>

> I agree too.  I just returned from a meeting with a student of mine
> who is working on
> his "final project".  His duty is to develop (in Ada, of course) a
> software for P2P live
> streaming.  The program has lots of TCP/UDP I/O handled by separate
> tasks, protected
> objects and so on...  While coming back to my office I tried to
> imagine what a mess would
> have been writing the software in C...

Been there, it is a mess indeed!

George