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: 2001-10-09 08:11:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news1.carrier1.net!newspeer.clara.net!news.clara.net!server3.netnews.ja.net!newshost.central.susx.ac.uk!news.bton.ac.uk!not-for-mail From: John English Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 15:15:16 +0100 Organization: University of Brighton Message-ID: <3BC30674.BA88AAB6@brighton.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: pc2je.it.bton.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: saturn.bton.ac.uk 1002639497 22481 193.62.183.154 (9 Oct 2001 14:58:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@bton.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Oct 2001 14:58:17 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en-gb] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14027 Date: 2001-10-09T14:58:17+00:00 List-Id: "chris.danx" wrote: > > "Ralph M�ritz" wrote in message > news:Xns9133DBAF0AD71ralphworkcoza@196.25.240.158... > > 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. Several have switched to Java. Reasons include lack of beginner's texts (which are all out of print because the market is too small because no-one teaches it anymore...) and, more importantly, lack of standard libraries for GUI development, networking, and data collections. Although there are plenty around, none of them are *standard*, so the perception is that Ada can't do these things. ----------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | ** NON-PROFIT CD FOR CS STUDENTS ** University of Brighton | -- see http://burks.bton.ac.uk -----------------------------------------------------------------