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-Thread: 103376,21960280f1d61e84 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!attbi_s22.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Jeffrey R. Carter" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (Windows/20061025) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come Ada isn't more popular? References: <1169531612.200010.153120@38g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.201.97.213 X-Complaints-To: abuse@mchsi.com X-Trace: attbi_s22 1169670329 12.201.97.213 (Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:25:29 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:25:29 GMT Organization: AT&T ASP.att.net Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:25:29 GMT Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:8511 Date: 2007-01-24T20:25:29+00:00 List-Id: Maciej Sobczak wrote: > > Did it cover open-source projects as well? > COBOL was popular at the time when development was centralized in big > companies, so it was easier to count the number of lines. Today every > kid is coding something and it's even hard to estimate how much code is > written every day that is just unnoticed. Just having Windows as a major > operating system (with milions of development shops shipping software > for it) gives a hint that COBOL might not be a winner any longer. It covered projects for which people were paid to develop SW. When you include open-source and teenage kids creating buffer-overflow errors in their bedrooms, you may get a different result. -- Jeff Carter "Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government." Monty Python & the Holy Grail 66