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From: Gautier write-only <gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On May 20, 2:53=A0pm, Duke Normandin wrote:

> Just curious to know if Ada is still widely used,

AFAIK it has never been widely used (so you can forget the "still").
As a language designed from scratch, it came too late to challenge
established languages (among them, C). The first version was perhaps
too rich to be competitive in the nascent microcomputing world - so it
that sense, it was too early. But wait, we are still in 2010. Perhaps
people in 2050 will ask themselves why the heck these fragile
"#include", '}' and pointers-everywhere-paradigm were still in use in
2010...

> and in what area(s) does it excel, e.g. data processing, number crunching=
, graphics, etc?

It is excellent in these areas, and probably in many others...
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