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: 2001-10-10 01:09:10 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!colt.net!dispose.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!pipehawk.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: john.mccabe@emrad.com.nospam (John McCabe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:08:23 GMT Organization: Emrad Ltd Message-ID: <3bc4012e.1203680@news.demon.co.uk> References: <3bc16680.2581922@news.demon.co.uk> <6gpw7.42573$jE3.4985089@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com> <3bc2b008.1326667@news.demon.co.uk> <9pv2tp$3o3$1@nh.pace.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1002701315 nnrp-01:21333 NO-IDENT pipehawk.demon.co.uk:158.152.226.81 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14121 Date: 2001-10-10T08:08:23+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 9 Oct 2001 10:51:35 -0400, "Marin David Condic" wrote: >You can see from participation in this newsgroup that there must be some >increase in interest in Ada. The number of posts seems to keep gradually >climbing. Maybe more hobbyists? Maybe additional university classes using >Ada? Maybe a few more companies doing serious work in Ada? Maybe a lot of >things. I wouldn't doubt that there is *some* increased interest in Ada - >how much being a hard to determine number. Another issue that could increase the number of postings to this group is simply increased knowledge that it's there! From work, for example, I have seldom been able to post to comp.lang.ada because I have been working on a secure network with no internet access. >We're definitely not as big a market as C++ or Java, but that doesn't make >it non-existent. Yes - one other significant difference appears to be enthusiasm on this newsgroup - there are some very knowlegeable people and important ones in terms of the language definition and compilers that provide valuable responses to questions. I had a look at a couple of the C based language's newsgroups and couldn't really say the same for them.