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From: Martin Dowie <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Investigating Ada
Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 05:48:39 +0000 (UTC)
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Phoebe wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have been looking into Ada as a new language to pick up. I tend to use C 
> for most projects, but I enjoy learning new things. I'm already sold on the 
> value of the language itself from a technical point of view, but my concern 
> is that it might have a rather small userbase, especially without the Ada 
> Mandate. I am having trouble finding recent FAQs or usage information. It's 
> easy to come across something from like 1994, but that's over ten years ago 
> ;)
> I'm going to learn it anyway, but I'm just hoping that people could comment 
> on its popularity, and also how it has kept up against the other languages 
> which surely must have incorporated a lot of its advantages by now. Thanks 

There is a recent users survey over at:

http://www.adaic.org/news/survey-results.html

Cheers

-- Martin