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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada 12 times more popular than Eiffel
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 06:45:04 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jun 4, 12:55=A0pm, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> On 4 juin, 10:01, Ludovic Brenta <ludo...@ludovic-brenta.org> wrote:
>
> > Here is yet another statistical proof of Ada's success as a mainstream
> > programming language: the thread "Ada vs Eiffel - Ada programmer
> > approach" had 12 different contributors here on comp.lang.ada whereas
> > the symmetric thread on comp.lang.eiffel had just one (the OP) and not
> > a single response. Therefore, there are 12 times more Ada programmers
> > as Eiffel programmers.
>
> > --
> > Ludovic Brenta.
> > How many degrees does humour have?
>
> Like Dimitry, I'm not sure such a conclusion can comes from such a
> fact. But it is sure by the way that Ada is more widely used than
> Eiffel. Ada is more impressive than Eiffel. May be somebody (I did it)
> come first to Eiffel and then after goes to Ada, after they understand
> that Eiffel cannot fulfill requirements of real world.
>
> What is sure, is that Ada user like the spirit of Eiffel, and Bertrand
> Meyer, the author of Eiffel, was largely inspired from Ada.
>
> There is a kind of friendship between Ada and Eiffel.

The enemy of your enemy is your friend...

I'll leave you to work out the common enemy! :-)

Cheers
-- Martin