From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!bob
Newsgroups: net.lang.ada
Title: What's Ada for: survey results
Article-I.D.: sdcsvax.9
Posted: Sat Feb 12 23:50:36 1983
Received: Wed Feb 16 03:00:01 1983

A few weeks ago, I posted a survey to this group.  I've been trying to
discover how successful Ada will be in the *COMMERCIAL* marketplace.
(The *MILITARY* success of Ada is assured by DoD edict.)

Thanks to those people who answered.  I only received a few replies
(about a half dozen).  Either we've got mailer problems, or hardly
anybody has plans!

Everyone who responded was enthusiastic, but these points were made:

	* need Ada compilers for more machines
	* existing compilers too slow
	* not sure strong typing is a good idea
	* also evaluating Pascal, C, and Modula-2
	* there should be a strong market for Ada packages,
	  for instances interfaces to SPSS.
	* package piracy should not be a serious problem

I suspect that the commercial market for Ada would be stronger if some
validated compilers were available.

Feel free to comment: the more, the merrier!


-- Bob Hofkin

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