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From: Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net>
Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used?
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On 2010-05-21, Yannick Duch�ne <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Sat, 22 May 2010 01:05:33 +0200, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> a  
> �crit:
>> Nothing too terribly mind-boggling! ;) Just don't want to spend the time
>> learning a "soon-to-be" fossil of a language, with no where to go but in  
>> a
>> museum.
> It had a long live, and will have a long live again.
> The goo word could be ?persistent?.
>
> It started at the end of the years 1970, first standardized in 1983,  
> revised in someway, the again revised in 1995 with many additions which  
> make it the first standardized OO language (while Ada does not handle OO  
> the same way as others), then again revised in 2005, and the next revision  
> is planned for 2012 or 2015 (I feel lost with this date... should be 2015,  
> while many people are talking about 2012).
>
> It was modern, in its early age, starting with Ada 83. It is unlikely that  
> something which was ahead in 1983 and which in 1983, already embedded  
> paradigms still totally unknown of most of 2010 languages, it is unlikely  
> such a thing can be referred to as a ?fossil?.
>
> Don't be afraid for that. Not popular, does not implies bad (and popular  
> does not implies good).

I didn't mean to say that Ada _was_ a fossil! When I originally asked the
question, I simply wanted to be sure that I was not in fact about to embark
on an archaeological expedition. ;) 

-- 
Duke
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