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From: Yves Bailly <kafka.fr@laposte.net>
Subject: Re: Ada is popular after all
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 18:54:58 +0100
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> Remember my tirade [1] about how some languages are the "zen masters"
> of programming? I quickly looked at the results of Debian's Popularity
> Contest [2], which ranks packages in Debian according to their
> [...]
> Granted, the two Pascal compilers combined beat gnat, but just look at
> the graph on [3] for the evolution since 2004. Something's happening.

It seems we're many to work hard to promote Ada in some way or another,
so in the long run there's hope ;-)

> Another thing that makes Ada trendy nowadays is the enduring series of
> articles by Yves Bailly in GNU/Linux Magazine France. The December
> issue contains article #14 in the series, ending with a mention of
> "the next article"...

Thanks for noting them :-) I hope you found them valuable enough, you
most probably didn't learn anything, but hopefully some might "see the
light". I can say that I received numerous feedback for those articles
(asking for source code, more details, etc.), already more than for
my serie on Qt (C++, 24 on Qt3, 8 on Qt4). So yes, it seems that Ada
is rather popular after all.

If you have any comment about the articles, please let me know.

Regards,

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