From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY
	autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,f57ab687763c7fb5
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail
From: "Adrian Hoe" <byhoe@greenlime.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Obsolete like Fortran ? You wish !
Date: 9 Jan 2005 07:27:10 -0800
Organization: http://groups.google.com
Message-ID: <1105284430.111762.50110@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>
References: <87k6qn6oeq.fsf_-_@kafka.homenet>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 219.95.189.215
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1105284434 28910 127.0.0.1 (9 Jan 2005 15:27:14
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 15:27:14 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: <87k6qn6oeq.fsf_-_@kafka.homenet>
User-Agent: G2/0.2
Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com
Injection-Info: c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=219.95.189.215;
   posting-account=LKUaWwwAAABzCo8SD2jIIt5LtkPzH8ot
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7579
Date: 2005-01-09T07:27:10-08:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>


israel t wrote:
> Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au> writes:
>
> > I think many people treat Ada as an obsolete language, much like
> > Fortran (for example)
>
> Fortran very much in use.
> It is also extensively used for new code, especially in the HPC
> community.
>
> Fortran 95 and F ( a clean subset of Fortran ) continue to attract
> hundreds of millions of dollars in new development.
>
> The Fortran 2003 specification draft has been finalised and is
available
> at
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cit//fortran/john_reid_new_2003.pdf
ATMOF, I still love Ada, really. :-)

Adrian Hoe