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From: Jeffrey Creem <jeff@thecreems.com>
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Subject: Re: Current status of Ada?
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Randy Brukardt wrote:
> "Steve Marotta" <smarotta@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1187726191.464593.16480@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I am conducting market research regarding the amount of Ada code in
>> active use today. I would appreciate a moment of someone's time if
>> they could point me to a source of information where I can find out an
>> estimate of how much Ada code is currently in use. This estimate
>> should include, and emphasize if necessary, legacy code that was
>> written more than ten years ago and is either being used as-is or with
>> minor modifications.
> 
> The AdaIC took a survey of Ada usage in 2005. Since the data was
> self-reported, its hard to know how accurate the results are. There is a
> presentation with a summary of the resulrs at
> http://www.adaic.com/site/Survey-05-present.pdf and a article with results
> at http://www.adaic.org/news/survey-results.html.
> 
>                                Randy Brukardt
> 
> 

And it is fair the say that the survey under-reports as many people 
working DoD related projects get enough briefings about violation of 
export laws that they are not going to risk their jobs to answer a 
survey that asks for specific project names.

Yes it appears that the questions are all fine but since the request to 
do  the survey is not being driven from a customer request or an 
internal request through the top of the company, I chose not to talk 
about any of the projects I work on. I suspect some number of other 
users fell into the same category.