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From: Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On 2010-05-21, Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta expounded in news:87d3wqbayp.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org:
>
>> Duke Normandin writes:
>>> On 2010-05-20, Anonymous <cripto@ecn.org> 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.
-- 
Duke
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