From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada 12 times more popular than Eiffel
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:23:43 +0200
Date: 2009-06-04T10:23:43+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1hin5ehyjnjmz$.wg9n0ypabk6y$.dlg@40tude.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7bd1fd9d-6040-4f20-8e06-7ba41ca64db8@f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com
On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 01:01:54 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Here is yet another statistical proof of Ada's success as a mainstream
> programming language: the thread "Ada vs Eiffel - Ada programmer
> approach" had 12 different contributors here on comp.lang.ada whereas
> the symmetric thread on comp.lang.eiffel had just one (the OP) and not
> a single response. Therefore, there are 12 times more Ada programmers
> as Eiffel programmers.
I agree with the conclusion, but not with the way you came to it. (:-))
Yes it looks plausible that Ada is more popular than Eiffel, but measuring
it by number of responses is barely representative.
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Regards,
Dmitry A. Kazakov
http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-04 8:01 Ada 12 times more popular than Eiffel Ludovic Brenta
2009-06-04 8:23 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov [this message]
2009-06-04 22:41 ` lanceboyle
2009-06-04 11:55 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-06-04 13:45 ` Martin
2009-06-04 17:05 ` Pascal Obry
2009-06-04 17:22 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2009-06-04 17:38 ` Pascal Obry
2009-06-04 18:53 ` Olivier Scalbert
2009-06-04 19:56 ` Pascal Obry
2009-06-04 19:05 ` Adam Beneschan
2009-06-04 20:14 ` Georg Bauhaus
2009-06-05 13:17 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2009-06-04 20:53 ` nobody
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