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=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,319ef0454c7765d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Subject: Re: Ada means what version by default ? Date: 1995/04/07 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 100070369 references: <1995Mar28.115614.9511@eisner> <3ls5sb$nl8@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <1995Apr4.210804.9579@eisner.decus.org> <19950405.211350.03@banana.demon.co.uk> organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1995-04-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Kevin says: "I'd agree there. Robert D. is in a bit of a special position w.r.t. Ada95; most Ada use out there is Ada83 (by a very long way). And that will probably continue to be the case for a good few years yet, given the duration of a typical Ada project and the availability (or lack) of tried, tested and trusted compilers." Hmm! this reflects a view that Ada is only used on giant projects. More and more a typical Ada project is a couple of hundred lines long, if that, written by a student for some project. It would be interesting to know how many professional Ada programmers there are in the world working on big projects. We estimate that between 5,000 and 10,000 people have downloaded GNAT from us and various mirror sites. And of course, when students are using the compiler, they don't download it individually, furthermore we have no way of including the number of people who get it off CD ROM's etc. How do you want to do the comparison? if you allow only big DoD projects in the comparison, no doubt Kevin is right, but if you count all programmers who have written in Ada, or even count lines of code, the switch over may be faster than you think (students churn out lots of code pretty fast :-)