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Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:34:24 +0100
From: Thomas <thomas@kenshi.dk>
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Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> 
> The paper was published in 2003 and stated the future was "dubious or
> nonexistent".  Since then:
> 
> * a new revision of the language was published.
> * AdaCore and the FSF made several major releases of their compiler and IDE;
> * Aonix released their Eclipse Ada plug-in;
> * AdaControl (several releases);
> * Ada Web Server (several releases);
> * PolyORB (several releases);
> * the GNU Ada Project was started;
> * the amount of Ada sources shipped as part of Debian went from 576 kSLOC
>   to 1 MSLOC (June 2005) to 1.3 MSLOC (April 2007);
> * the professional Ada conferences continued to take place;
> * Ada was featured at the "Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre" in 2004;
> * and again at FOSDEM 2006;
> * GNU/Linux Magazine France published a series of 17 articles by Yves
>   Bailly, covering all aspects of the language (to the point where
>   students I talked to thought Ada was "fashionable")
> 
> I probably forgot lots of other noteworthy events but you get the idea.
> 
> I think that's not too bad for a "dubious or nonexistent future".

I think you're absolutely right. It's good to know that the language 
I've started learning is alive and well.

Thank you.  :o)
Thomas