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From: "Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: The future of Ada is at risk
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:06:08 -0800
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By way of hard data, how about the Tiobe index 
(http://www.tiobe.com/tpci.htm)?  When we compare the 2008 results against 
the copy of the Tiobe index from 2004 
(http://www.developer.com/java/other/article.php/3448451), you can see that 
Ada has gone from number #19 then to #23 now.   But that just illustrates 
the current flat-lining condition.

The other data I can find is indirect, as in the computer language book sale 
graph 
(http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/08/programming_language_trends_1.html), 
or the stats on open source projects 
(http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~flab/languages.html).  Either way, Ada doesn't 
make the graph.

Compare this with the heyday of Ada, back in the late 80's to early '90's. 
I don't have any real data, but I'd guess that it's fair to say it was in 
the top half-dozen languages.

Brian

"Robert A Duff" <bobduff@shell01.TheWorld.com> wrote in message 
news:wcczlvct2mp.fsf@shell01.TheWorld.com...
> "Phaedrus" <phaedrusalt@hotmail.com> writes:
>
>>...the reason for Ada's diminishing market
>> share, ...
>
> Is Ada's market share really diminishing?  It's never been huge,
> compared to (say) C, but my impression is that it's slowly
> increasing.  AdaCore is doing well, for example.
>
> I don't know how to reliably measure it, though.
> Do you have any concrete evidence?
>
> I don't have any hard evidence one way or the other.
>
> - Bob