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: 103376,971aa11c293c3db1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-07-27 22:32:23 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!feeder.via.net!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news1.rsm1.occa.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JM Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language? Message-ID: <4vj4mt84nefmc90033in6cb58juh9hn03r@4ax.com> References: <5be89e2f.0107250250.2954154c@posting.google.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 05:32:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.21.59.142 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rsm1.occa.home.com 996298343 24.21.59.142 (Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:32:23 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 22:32:23 PDT Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:10659 Date: 2001-07-28T05:32:23+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 19:39:13 GMT, tmoran@acm.org wrote: >>I too found the 5 year old data to be non interesting and not convincing. >> > >I too found many broken links. > I understand the adaic site is presently being moved and updated, >so it isn't looking its best right now. As has been pointed out, >adahome maintenance ceased a couple of years ago and, although it >has lots of archival stuff, new things are largely going to >www.adapower.com > At a quick count, www.adapower.com has 1500 distinct URLs, about >30 of which lead to an error 404. About 1100 of those URLs are on >the www.adapower.com site itself, 750 dated 1996 .. 1999, and about >250 each from 2000 and (so far in) 2001. Considering that the site >is maintained by one unpaid guy in his spare time, that's rather good. > I'd be eager to test my statistics gatherer (written in Ada of course) >against some C++ sites, can you suggest some? Google has an excellent reference site for languages. Ada is actually quite high on the list in terms of # references. Java simply smashes C++. http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/ -jason