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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-10 21:27:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!look.ca!newsfeed1.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net!newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Sender: David Brown From: David Brown Subject: Re: is Ada dying? Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: User-Agent: tin/1.5.8-20010221 ("Blue Water") (UNIX) (Linux/2.4.11 (i686)) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 04:27:18 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.133.74.64 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1002774438 64.133.74.64 (Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:27:18 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:27:18 PDT Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net X-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:23:41 PDT (newsmaster1.prod.itd.earthlink.net) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:14215 Date: 2001-10-11T04:27:18+00:00 List-Id: "Ralph Moritz" wrote: > I'm just starting out learning Ada, but it seems Ada is dying. From what I > can see very few people use Ada, out of about 15 000 projects on > Sourceforge only 32 are written in Ada! I think that's sad, and now that > Ada's parents (the U.S DoD) are dropping Ada 95 what does the future hold > in store? Is it worthwhile learning a language nobody appreciates or uses? Not bad. It was about a year ago that I asked sourceforge to add Ada as a programming language. At the time, only adump was an Ada project. It looks like others have made use of the language feature of sourceforge. Remember, there is a lot of software being developed that isn't on sourceforge, even lots of free or opensource software. David Brown