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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,38e3cd194770d545 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!solnet.ch!solnet.ch!news-zh.switch.ch!switch.ch!news.hispeed.ch!linux2.krischik.com!news From: Martin Krischik Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Investigating Ada Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:54:39 +0200 Organization: Cablecom Newsserver Message-ID: <1359431.8UH97gUmzP@linux1.krischik.com> References: <4cE0f.1602$ir4.1138@edtnps90> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84-73-3-68.dclient.hispeed.ch Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: news.hispeed.ch 1128495616 15445 84.73.3.68 (5 Oct 2005 07:00:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@hispeed.ch NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 07:00:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.9.2 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5392 Date: 2005-10-05T08:54:39+02:00 List-Id: Phoebe wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have been looking into Ada as a new language to pick up. I tend to use C > for most projects, but I enjoy learning new things. I'm already sold on > the value of the language itself from a technical point of view, but my > concern is that it might have a rather small userbase, especially without > the Ada Mandate. I am having trouble finding recent FAQs or usage > information. It's easy to come across something from like 1994, but that's > over ten years ago ;) Ahh yes, the old pages have a better google rating - no one knows why. Here some pages with newer dates: September 29, 2005, at 08:12 AM: http://ada.krischik.com/ 15:05, 1 October 2005 203.197.76.86: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming Tuesday October 4th, 2005 http://www.adaworld.com/ > I'm going to learn it anyway, but I'm just hoping that people could > comment on its popularity, and also how it has kept up against the other > languages which surely must have incorporated a lot of its advantages by > now. Thanks Now that PC become more powerfull and therefore can better handle feature rich languages Ada has a little revival. Mind you: when saying feature rich one take into account the C ISO standart is only a few pages shorter then the Ada ISO standart and C++ has a wooping 200 pages more. The former slim languages have caught up (but they have put on a lot of "backward compatibility fat" instead of "feature muskels"). Martin -- mailto://krischik@users.sourceforge.net Ada programming at: http://ada.krischik.com