Re: Mike Feldman, meet Archie

[shimeall@cs.nps.navy.mil (timothy shimeall)]

Your methodology is in serious trouble as a metric for Ada use.
It finds (as might be expected) anonymously-available Ada translators
(Ada-Ed) and language-specific bindings (Ada-Motif, Ada-X).  

But Many Ada-related tools don't have "Ada" as part of their name.
Consider:
    Anna (from Stanford)
    AFLEX/AYACC (from UC Irvine)
    ARCTURUS (from UC Irvine -- but not by anonymous ftp)
    SPEC (from NPS -- but not by anonymous ftp)
    etc.

If Archie was even as thorough as a "man -k" under unix, you might
have located these.  Since instead it is closer to a unix "find" call
you didn't have a chance.

Ask yourself, how much C usage would your methodology have located?
(Hint: it would miss "lint", "prof", "make", etc.)  I'd conjecture that your
results would have been comparable to the results of your Ada query.
					Tim