Re: Decline?

[VilleWitt <ville.witt@gmail.com>]

On Mar 13, 7:34 am, Thomas <tho...@kenshi.dk> wrote:
> Ludovic Brenta wrote:
>
> > The paper was published in 2003 and stated the future was "dubious or
> > nonexistent".  Since then:
>
> > * a new revision of the language was published.
> > * AdaCore and the FSF made several major releases of their compiler and IDE;
> > * Aonix released their Eclipse Ada plug-in;
> > * AdaControl (several releases);
> > * Ada Web Server (several releases);
> > * PolyORB (several releases);
> > * the GNU Ada Project was started;
> > * the amount of Ada sources shipped as part of Debian went from 576 kSLOC
> >   to 1 MSLOC (June 2005) to 1.3 MSLOC (April 2007);
> > * the professional Ada conferences continued to take place;
> > * Ada was featured at the "Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre" in 2004;
> > * and again at FOSDEM 2006;
> > * GNU/Linux Magazine France published a series of 17 articles by Yves
> >   Bailly, covering all aspects of the language (to the point where
> >   students I talked to thought Ada was "fashionable")
>
> > I probably forgot lots of other noteworthy events but you get the idea.
>
> > I think that's not too bad for a "dubious or nonexistent future".
>
> I think you're absolutely right. It's good to know that the language
> I've started learning is alive and well.
>
> Thank you.  :o)
> Thomas

I started to learn Ada 95 up to christmas '07, and I love it. I digged
John Barnes Programming in Ada 95 after I read most of the Ada
wikibook. Im from Denmark as well, and only when told to use other
languages than Ada, I do. I starting to look at GNU HURD to see if any
parts could be written in Ada, and it seems like it is possible,
however no compiler is yet in Debian GNU/Hurd.

Ville

"GNU, Ada and dvorak - I may be crazy, but it is one elegant mix, when
you get used to it!"