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From: Anonymous <cripto@ecn.org>
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Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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> 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..

Ada was never widely used. It could have been, because it's one of the all
time great general purpose languages. There's probably no better or more
flexible HLL. However, various factors combined to make it a niche language
and it doesn't have any hope of breaking out of that niche or getting the
use and exposure it deserves.