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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7e91369a070cca32 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!news1.google.com!news.germany.com!newsfeed1.funet.fi!newsfeeds.funet.fi!newsfeed1.swip.net!swipnet!nntpserver.swip.net!not-for-mail From: Frederic Praca Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada is popular after all Message-ID: <20070205220549.07f9d4fe@localhost.darkstar> References: <1170694465.682267.153990@s48g2000cws.googlegroups.com> <45c76f73$0$30490$426a34cc@news.free.fr> <873b5kl57q.fsf@ludovic-brenta.org> X-Newsreader: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.2 (GTK+ 2.8.12; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:05:49 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.170.138.38 X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@swip.net X-Trace: nntpserver.swip.net 1170709549 80.170.138.38 (Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:05:49 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:05:49 CEST Organization: A Customer of Tele2 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8983 Date: 2007-02-05T22:05:49+01:00 List-Id: Le Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:28:09 +0100, Ludovic Brenta a =E9crit : > 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. >=20 > I'm glad to hear that. >=20 > > If you have any comment about the articles, please let me know. >=20 > 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! >=20 > 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!" >=20 > 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