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From: "Ralph M�ritz" <ralph@work.co.za>
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Subject: Re: is Ada dying?
Date: 7 Oct 2001 20:56:58 GMT
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Jeffrey Carter <jrcarter@acm.org> wrote in
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<snip>
 
> Is COBOL dying? Of 27,615 projects on Sourceforge, zero use COBOL, yet
> COBOL is the most commonly used language in the world. Just because
> it's not the current fad language or the language of choice for hackers
> does not mean a language is dead.
> 
> Ada is the international language of choice when software quality is
> the prime concern, such as safety-critical systems. It will not be
> disappearing any time soon.
> 

Hmm, ok point taken. I suppose I shouldn't have judged so hastily.