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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 08:40:23 +0200
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"Ralph M�ritz" <ralph@work.co.za> writes:

> I'm just starting out learning Ada, but it seems Ada is dying. From what I 
> can see very few people use Ada, out of about 15 000 projects on 
> Sourceforge only 32 are written in Ada!

How many are written in COBOL or Fortran?  And these languages are
definitely not dying!

The SourceForge statistics are not even representative of the whole
free software community, and certainly do not reflect internal use.

> Is it worthwhile learning a language nobody appreciates or uses?

If the language helps to solve your problems, why not?