Re: Decline?

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Thomas writes:
> gpriv@axonx.com wrote:
>>
>> If popularity is the major criteria to choose the language we all
>> should use VB.
>>
>> George.
>
> Hehe, good point.
>
> I'm not so much worried about the popularity thing - it's more the
> "nonexistent future" statement that made me wonder.

The paper was published in 2003 and stated the future was "dubious or
nonexistent".  Since then:

* a new revision of the language was published.
* AdaCore and the FSF made several major releases of their compiler and IDE;
* Aonix released their Eclipse Ada plug-in;
* AdaControl (several releases);
* Ada Web Server (several releases);
* PolyORB (several releases);
* the GNU Ada Project was started;
* the amount of Ada sources shipped as part of Debian went from 576 kSLOC
  to 1 MSLOC (June 2005) to 1.3 MSLOC (April 2007);
* the professional Ada conferences continued to take place;
* Ada was featured at the "Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre" in 2004;
* and again at FOSDEM 2006;
* GNU/Linux Magazine France published a series of 17 articles by Yves
  Bailly, covering all aspects of the language (to the point where
  students I talked to thought Ada was "fashionable")

I probably forgot lots of other noteworthy events but you get the idea.

I think that's not too bad for a "dubious or nonexistent future".

-- 
Ludovic Brenta.