"Ralph M�ritz" <ralph@work.co.za> wrote in message
news:Xns9133DBAF0AD71ralphworkcoza@196.25.240.158...
> 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?

The evidence from the UK is that Ada use is increasing. Check out articles
in
www.cw360.com and www.jobserve.co.uk has about 5 times as many jobs
for Ada as it did around March/April 2000 (when I was last looking for
work :-)