Re: Ada is popular after all

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

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
> popularity. (This ranking helps choose which CD-ROM or DVD-ROM each
> package ships on. There are currently 23 CD-ROMs or 3 DVD-ROMs for
> i386 alone.)
> 
> [1] http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.java/msg/27adfc53e2cb4ac1
> [2] http://popcon.debian.org
> 
> I only looked at the "zen master" languages and at the "votes" column
> in the popularity contest results. Here is what I found:
> 
> Language Package      Votes
> ---------------------------
> Ada      gnat         98
> Pascal   fp-compiler  65
> Pascal   gpc          55
> Eiffel   smarteiffel  20
> Modula-2 m2c          4
> Oberon   oo2c         1
> 
> Granted, the two Pascal compilers combined beat gnat, but just look at
> the graph on [3] for the evolution since 2004. Something's happening.
> 
> [3] http://people.debian.org/~igloo/popcon-graphs/index.php?
> packages=fp-compiler%2C+gnat%2C
> +gpc&show_vote=on&want_legend=on&beenhere=1
> 
> 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"...

Also this newsgroup seems more alive than ever...