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,FREEMAIL_FROM, PLING_QUERY autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: a07f3367d7,b6d862eabdeb1fc4 X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps82.POSTED!7564ea0f!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada From: Duke Normandin Subject: Re: Ada noob here! Is Ada widely used? References: <0e88de66-128c-48fd-9b9f-fdb4357f318a@z17g2000vbd.googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Darwin) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 19:51:19 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.154.123.35 X-Trace: edtnps82 1274385079 75.154.123.35 (Thu, 20 May 2010 13:51:19 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 13:51:19 MDT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:11819 Date: 2010-05-20T19:51:19+00:00 List-Id: On 2010-05-20, Gautier write-only wrote: > On May 20, 2:53�pm, Duke Normandin wrote: > >> Just curious to know if Ada is still widely used, > > AFAIK it has never been widely used (so you can forget the "still"). > As a language designed from scratch, it came too late to challenge > established languages (among them, C). The first version was perhaps > too rich to be competitive in the nascent microcomputing world - so it > that sense, it was too early. But wait, we are still in 2010. Perhaps > people in 2050 will ask themselves why the heck these fragile > "#include", '}' and pointers-everywhere-paradigm were still in use in > 2010... > >> and in what area(s) does it excel, e.g. data processing, number crunching, graphics, etc? > > It is excellent in these areas, and probably in many others... So it would be fair to say that Ada is truly a "general-purpose" language? -- Duke *** Tolerance becomes a crime, when applied to evil [Thomas Mann] ***