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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-08 13:16:00 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!enews.sgi.com!coop.net!newsfeed1.global.lmco.com!svlnews.lmms.lmco.com!news1.lmtas.lmco.com!not-for-mail From: Gary Scott Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 14:57:39 -0500 Organization: LM Aeronautics Message-ID: <3BC20533.F2F0E29@lmtas.lmco.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: CAA261517.lmtas.lmco.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-CCK-MCD {C-UDP; LMTAS} (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13966 Date: 2001-10-08T14:57:39-05:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote: > > "Ralph M�ritz" wrote in message > news:Xns9133DBAF0AD71ralphworkcoza@196.25.240.158... > > I'm just starting out learning Ada, but it seems Ada is dying. From what I > > can see very few people use Ada, out of about 15 000 projects on > > Sourceforge only 32 are written in Ada! > > Make that 33. There is a project to develop a cross platform technology > known as the Andromeda GUI project. It's meant to be source level > compatible and is to be written in a variety of languages of which Ada is > one. The idea grew from a discussion on alt.os.development, with developers > wanting to do minimal porting of apps to their kernels. i.e. develop on > windows, unix etc but transfer it to their OSes without changing a single > line. It's very early in it's design and there are only two developers at > present. Reinventing the wheel...see GINO and Winteracter... > > > I think that's sad, and now that > > Ada's parents (the U.S DoD) are dropping Ada 95 what does the future hold > > in store? Is it worthwhile learning a language nobody appreciates or uses? > > They teach it at a few uni's now. Don't know how if its uptake is more than > before; might be interesting to find out. > > Chris > > p.s. GUI is probably wrong. It will include more than just a universal gui > (after all Gtk+ does a good job already), like file IO, etc.