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,CP1252 X-Google-Thread: 103376,7ee10ec601726fbf X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-10-08 10:30:22 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!grolier!btnet-peer0!btnet!news5-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!news2-win.server.ntlworld.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "chris.danx" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: is Ada dying? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 18:25:16 +0100 NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.253.13.79 X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com X-Trace: news2-win.server.ntlworld.com 1002561906 62.253.13.79 (Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:25:06 BST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:25:06 BST Organization: ntlworld News Service Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13948 Date: 2001-10-08T18:25:16+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! Make that 33. There is a project to develop a cross platform technology known as the Andromeda GUI project. It's meant to be source level compatible and is to be written in a variety of languages of which Ada is one. The idea grew from a discussion on alt.os.development, with developers wanting to do minimal porting of apps to their kernels. i.e. develop on windows, unix etc but transfer it to their OSes without changing a single line. It's very early in it's design and there are only two developers at present. > 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? They teach it at a few uni's now. Don't know how if its uptake is more than before; might be interesting to find out. Chris p.s. GUI is probably wrong. It will include more than just a universal gui (after all Gtk+ does a good job already), like file IO, etc.