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=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,f57ab687763c7fb5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!newshub.sdsu.edu!elnk-nf2-pas!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net.POSTED!a6202946!not-for-mail From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Obsolete like Fortran ? You wish ! References: <87k6qn6oeq.fsf_-_@kafka.homenet> In-Reply-To: <87k6qn6oeq.fsf_-_@kafka.homenet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:28:43 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.186.48.200 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread1.news.pas.earthlink.net 1105298923 63.186.48.200 (Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:28:43 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2005 11:28:43 PST Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7590 Date: 2005-01-09T19:28:43+00:00 List-Id: israel t wrote: > Brian May writes: > >>I think many people treat Ada as an obsolete language, much like >>Fortran (for example) > > Fortran very much in use. > It is also extensively used for new code, especially in the HPC > community. I suspect that this was Brian's point. -- Jeff Carter "You cheesy lot of second-hand electric donkey-bottom biters." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 14