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-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-11 09:52:44 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!news1.tor.metronet.ca!nnrp1.tor.metronet.ca!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3BC5CE5A.9060500@home.com> From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010726 Netscape6/6.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:52:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.47.195 NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 10:52:43 MDT Organization: MetroNet Communications Group Inc. Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14295 Date: 2001-10-11T16:52:43+00:00 List-Id: David Brown wrote: > "Ralph Moritz" wrote: >>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! 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? > > Not bad. It was about a year ago that I asked sourceforge to add Ada as > a programming language. At the time, only adump was an Ada project. It > looks like others have made use of the language feature of sourceforge. > > Remember, there is a lot of software being developed that isn't on > sourceforge, even lots of free or opensource software. > > David Brown Yes, not everyone uses the "source forge". See my link below, for another project (AdaVox) that is in Ada95. Of course, there are many other sites, with many more projects. -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://members.home.net/ve3wwg