>DE: >> ..... give me fuel to educate these >> developers and keep the popularity of the resilient language growing? > >RL: >> ...., the marketing capability of the Ada community with few exceptions >> is inversely proportional to its technical ability... > >WWG: >Robert Leif may have exaggerated a little, but it is true that the reasons >Ada is better than Java and certainly better than C++ for most purposes... With respect to Ada marketing ... Last week I attended an awards banquet for winners of science fairs in the Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD region. The most impressive looking display was of the solution of large systems of highly non-linear equations for lens design using "genetic selection" techniques. I asked the high school junior which language he used, and of course it was C++. When I asked him if he had considered Ada, he said that Ada was named after a woman considered to be the first programmer, and that it was *one of the first languages, and was dead a long time ago,* so "no". Seems the message reaching some smart high school kids is a bit garbled. Tom Panfil -- Baltimore SIGAda