Re: Ada is on the rise!

[Georg Bauhaus <rm.dash-bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On 21.09.11 01:23, George wrote:
> Am Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:07:47 +0200 schrieb Thomas Løcke:
>
>> http://lang-index.sourceforge.net/
>>
>> The September 2011 update of the Transparent Language Popularity Index
>> shows Ada sitting at a comfortable 0.999% in the "any" category, and a
>> whooping 1.523% in the "general-purpose" category, meaning we've finally
>> managed to edge our way past Pascal. YAY!
>>
> Can you tell me what the advantges of using Ada are compared to other
> modern languages like Java and C#?

A bit off-topic: all languages aren't really modern in that they
show new kinds of programming expressions or provide for new ways
of programming multicore hardware easily etc.
Java and C# are statistically more fashionable, though, which
might be important insofar as it is wise to dress according to
the current trend.

Note also that that Google is not only publicly favoring the languages
Python, Java, JavaScript, and Go (and C for kernels, C++ only for
system/network software IIUC), they also develop two of these
languages, Python and Go, having hired their chief architects,
They have built their flavor of virtual machine for "Mobile Phone Java".
Go is pretty much an iteration of languages developed
with the Plan 9 project at Bell labs during the 1990s.

Advantages of languages are typically measured by project leads'
preferences, hence it is not usually important to compare technical
qualities at any level of detail.