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=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-07 12:47:55 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news6-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "martin.m.dowie" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: is Ada dying? X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Message-ID: Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 20:42:08 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.252.146.181 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news6-win.server.ntlworld.com 1002483758 62.252.146.181 (Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:42:38 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 20:42:38 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13865 Date: 2001-10-07T20:42:08+01:00 List-Id: "Ralph M�ritz" 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 :-)