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=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!v18g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Bryan Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 05:14:07 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1cdca5d5-4136-4383-a47f-9397cec34698@v18g2000vbc.googlegroups.com> References: <20100520192448.836181A795C@www.ecn.org> <87d3wqbayp.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> <1lEJn.4421$Z6.759@edtnps82> NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.20.18.222 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1274703248 2068 127.0.0.1 (24 May 2010 12:14:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 12:14:08 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: v18g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.20.18.222; posting-account=kI3R0woAAAAkETUXcbnWjzzG0TUmJmXv User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_8; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.22.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Safari/531.22.7,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11918 Date: 2010-05-24T05:14:07-07:00 List-Id: On May 21, 7:05=A0pm, Duke Normandin wrote: > On 2010-05-21, Warren wrote: > > > > > > > Ludovic Brenta expounded innews:87d3wqbayp.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org: > > >> Duke Normandin writes: > >>> On 2010-05-20, Anonymous wrote: > >>>>> Just curious to know if Ada is still widely used, and in what > >>>>> area(s) does it excel, e.g. data processing, number crunching, > >>>>> graphics, etc? TIA.. > > > It's ok to be curious but this begs the question of why > > it is important for it to be "popular"? > > > Do you have to sell it's use at your company? > > > Are you considering the availability of tools and/or > > source code? > > > Or, are you interested in it for your own (or open sourced) > > projects? > > > Depending on the answers to some of these factors, > > popularity may not be important. > > Nothing too terribly mind-boggling! ;) Just don't want to spend the time > learning a "soon-to-be" fossil of a language, with no where to go but in = a > museum. Been there; done that! I'm also looking at learning Miranda - but > guess what? Nice, simple functional language - but zero community and > support. It _may_ get a second life - maybe. Meanwhile, I'm liking Ada. > -- By all means I say learn Ada at least as a learning exercise. It's a great language that you can grow with over time. GNAT is a great tool set as well, it provides you everything you need in the beginning. And let us not forget that some very interesting projects are built with Ada commercially! My only word of caution is to make sure you have a "popular" industry language on your tool belt as well. Try as I have, I've never been able to find work with Ada. When I was in Asia-Pacific, Ada was unheard of. In North America I find Ada is more well known, but without ten years of Ada industry experience, most employers are simply not interested in talking to candidates. Despite all of its faults, C++ has kept me employed and working on interesting projects. :) Multiple interpretations on C++ can be derived from that last statement.