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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-26 18:51:02 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.gtei.net!newscon02.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr17.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3B60CA4C.4C52C72C@flash.net> From: Gary Scott Reply-To: scottg@flash.net Organization: Home X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en]C-DIAL (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? References: <5be89e2f.0107250250.2954154c@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.48.221.184 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr17.news.prodigy.com 996198626 6242077 64.48.221.184 (Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:50:26 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 21:50:26 EDT Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 01:50:26 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10623 Date: 2001-07-27T01:50:26+00:00 List-Id: My Fortran site (around 1200 links) gets about 5000 hits/month. Not bad for a personal home page with no advertising (although I get requests from vendors on occasion, I put the ads in for free but on a separate page for ads). A dedicated nerd (nut/wacko) can do a lot in his "spare" time... David Bolen wrote: > > tmoran@acm.org writes: > > > At a quick count, www.adapower.com has 1500 distinct URLs, about > > 30 of which lead to an error 404. About 1100 of those URLs are on > > the www.adapower.com site itself, 750 dated 1996 .. 1999, and about > > 250 each from 2000 and (so far in) 2001. Considering that the site > > is maintained by one unpaid guy in his spare time, that's rather good. > > I'd be eager to test my statistics gatherer (written in Ada of course) > > against some C++ sites, can you suggest some? > > It's interesting that I've seen just about all responses wondering > about equivalent sites for C++ when I didn't even mention any specific > language in my initial post. I guess it's clear who's in Ada's > sights, eh? :-) > > I don't actually have any C++ URLs handy since that's not one of the > languages I've been perusing recently. And my original question was > really spurred by my own impressions formed as I was browsing through > Ada related sites. It's not so much a capabilities comparison as a > "feel" for the community. It's obviously a biased sample set, since > it's net-centric, so as I mentioned, I'm not implying that I > necessarily read too much into it. > > But for other languages that I've researched recently (and thus would > have contributed to my mindset) how about: > > Python (http://www.python.org) > Eiffel (http://www.eiffel.com) > OCaml (http://www.ocaml.org) > Ruby (http://www.ruby-lang.org/en) > Haskell (http://www.haskell.org) > > Or even more niche languages such as > > Lua (http://www.lua.org) > PHP (http://www.php.net/) > > which while certainly not at all directly comparable to languages like > Ada, tended to feel more "alive" in terms of net-presence. > > Note that these are only offered to help in testing your statistics > gatherer - I have absolutely no wish to fan the fires of any > inter-language wars :-) > > (Is the source to your gatherer available?) > > -- > -- David > -- > /-----------------------------------------------------------------------\ > \ David Bolen \ E-mail: db3l@fitlinxx.com / > | FitLinxx, Inc. \ Phone: (203) 708-5192 | > / 860 Canal Street, Stamford, CT 06902 \ Fax: (203) 316-5150 \ > \-----------------------------------------------------------------------/ -- Gary Scott mailto:scottg@flash.net mailto:webmaster@fortranlib.com http://www.fortranlib.com Support the GNU Fortran G95 Project: http://g95.sourceforge.net