Re: ADA Popularity Discussion Request

From: Alexander E. Kopilovich (aek_at_VB1162.spb.edu)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 00:02:21 +0400 (MSD)
To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org

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

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