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=0.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,TO_NO_BRKTS_PCNT autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,8d61dba472206eed,start X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!postnews.google.com!u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Ludovic Brenta Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Interest in Ada is growing strong Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 07:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 153.98.68.197 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1276095421 4698 127.0.0.1 (9 Jun 2010 14:57:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 14:57:01 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=153.98.68.197; posting-account=pcLQNgkAAAD9TrXkhkIgiY6-MDtJjIlC User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009012111 Red Hat/3.0.6-1.el5 Firefox/3.0.6,gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:12501 Date: 2010-06-09T07:57:01-07:00 List-Id: The world-renowned Ada-Belgium International Spring Event once again attracted a crowd; this year, 12 persons were present and another 2 expressed interest but could not attend. The Beaujolais Effect was demonstrated once again. The Debian packaging workshop attracted unprecedented audience of 5 enthusiastic people (not including myself), some of whom actually came prepared with questions and Debian already installed on their machines. All in all it was a very pleasant event; Lady Ada smiled upon us from the heavens and granted us excellent weather. I look forward to next time. There were 10 people present last year, 2 of whom also attended the Debian packaging workshop. So, the interest in Ada grew 20% year over year and the interest in "Ada in Debian" grew 150% year over year. Not bad for a "dying" language. -- Ludovic Brenta.