Re: Datapro announces survey of ObjectOrient languages

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In article <SRCTRAN.93Apr1131550@world.std.com> srctran@world.std.com (Gregory 
Aharonian) writes:
>    From an article in April 1993 SunObserver:
>
>    The US and European object oriented development market will grow from
>$865 million to $4 billion by 1997, but the number of OO programming
>languages will shrink in the process, according to a new Datapro survey.
>About 80 languages now exist, but an industry shakeout is on the way, and
>at present, C++ and Smalltalk are ahead of the pack, said Datapro's Frank
>Teti.

The rest of this article I chose not to include since I think that this 
initial paragraph is sufficient to make my point.

Greg, often times I find your postings to be insightful and valuable.  But
quite often I find them to be much less insightful, this posting is one of
those instances.

The comparative language statistics that you reference are all statistics
on "present" usage of "OO programming languages".  Considering that much of
the OO community (actually, I would be willing to argue that most of the
OO community) does not consider Ada an OO programming language, you have
to admit that the absence of Ada-83 in this arena is not surprising.  
When Ada-9X becomes available then perhaps the absence of Ada in the OO
community would carry a bit more credibility.

Just my two cents worth.

Regards,
Steve Case