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Subject: Re: Ada 12 times more popular than Eiffel
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On Jun 4, 1:23=A0am, "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mail...@dmitry-kazakov.de>
wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 01:01:54 -0700 (PDT), Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> > Here is yet another statistical proof of Ada's success as a mainstream
> > programming language: the thread "Ada vs Eiffel - Ada programmer
> > approach" had 12 different contributors here on comp.lang.ada whereas
> > the symmetric thread on comp.lang.eiffel had just one (the OP) and not
> > a single response. Therefore, there are 12 times more Ada programmers
> > as Eiffel programmers.
>
> I agree with the conclusion, but not with the way you came to it. (:-))

Uh, I believe that Ludovic was making a joke.

Jerry