From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.5-pre1 (2020-06-20) on ip-172-31-74-118.ec2.internal X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_50 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.5-pre1 Date: 21 Oct 92 03:10:38 GMT From: dog.ee.lbl.gov!hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu! sol.ctr.columbia.edu!eff!world!tne@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas N Erickson) Subject: Re: What is the State of Ada? Message-ID: List-Id: wayne@netcom.com (wayne t. watson) writes: >I've been away from the world for a very long time(10 plus years) and am >curious as to the general state of the language. Apparently it is now >available for the PC (I saw a posting above that someone ftp'ed a >copy from the Univ. of New York). Are there any recent articles on the >language, say, in Language or Dr. Dobbs, etc., that are easy to get a hold of? >-- >Wayne T. Watson wayne@netcom.com (415) 969-4233 >Mountain View, CA Wayne, Ada is very much alive and well and is one of the only two major languages growing in its use today (according to a recent Dataquest survey). There are several sources of articles. The September issue of American Programmer has an interesting article on Ada. Ed Yourdon takes a devil's advocate approach to the language today with responses provided by Paul Strassman. One of the most complete sources of info on the language is the Ada Information Clearinghouse bulletin board. Their number is (703)614-0215. Tom Erickson -- Tom Erickson Alsys tne@world.std.com