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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada 12 times more popular than Eiffel
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Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 10:23:43 +0200
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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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Dmitry A. Kazakov
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