Re: Ada is popular after all

[Frederic Praca <frederic.praca@freebsd-fr.org>]

Le Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:28:09 +0100,
Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org> a écrit :

> Yves Bailly writes:
> [Ada articles in GNU/Linux Magazine France]
> > I can say that I received numerous feedback for those articles
> > (asking for source code, more details, etc.), already more than for
> > my serie on Qt (C++, 24 on Qt3, 8 on Qt4). So yes, it seems that Ada
> > is rather popular after all.
> 
> I'm glad to hear that.
> 
> > If you have any comment about the articles, please let me know.
> 
> Just one: they're really good.  I bought all issues of GMLF where they
> appear, except for Jan and Feb 2007 because I couldn't find them in
> Brussels.  Keep up the good work!
> 
> At a local GNU/Linux copy party, I once introduced Ada to two students
> in CS, and noted that "unfortunately Ada is not a fashionable
> language".  One of the students said: "oh yes, it is fashionable, what
> with all these articles in GNU/Linux Magazine France!"
> 
> I hope you find more to say about Ada in future articles.  It seems
> you've now covered pretty much everything about the language, but
> maybe (just a suggestion) you might like to extend the series with Toy
> Lovelace, Qt4Ada or GtkAda?
And (another suggestion) why not talking about OpenRavenscar
(http://polaris.dit.upm.es/~ork/ ) or MarteOS
(http://marte.unican.es/ ) which allow to code in Ada for Real Time
embedded systems ?

Fred