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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f57ab687763c7fb5,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.moat.net!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!lon-in.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!news-server.bigpond.net.au!53ab2750!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Obsolete like Fortran ? You wish ! From: israel t Message-ID: <87k6qn6oeq.fsf_-_@kafka.homenet> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:dLHMfdFigGUrd8/mDti+chPmHvk= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 07:37:33 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.132.235.43 X-Complaints-To: abuse@bigpond.net.au X-Trace: news-server.bigpond.net.au 1105256253 144.132.235.43 (Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:37:33 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 18:37:33 EST Organization: BigPond Internet Services Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7576 Date: 2005-01-09T07:37:33+00:00 List-Id: Brian May writes: > I think many people treat Ada as an obsolete language, much like > Fortran (for example) Fortran very much in use. It is also extensively used for new code, especially in the HPC community. Fortran 95 and F ( a clean subset of Fortran ) continue to attract hundreds of millions of dollars in new development. The Fortran 2003 specification draft has been finalised and is available at http://www.kcl.ac.uk/kis/support/cit//fortran/john_reid_new_2003.pdf