Re: Current status of Ada?

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

"lou" <louisaturk@bible-way.org> wrote in message
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> 2. All links to the Public Ada Library need to be fixed.

If you look on dead websites (which is most of them), you're going to find
dead links. Plus, sites disappear and get renamed often enough that it is
tough to keep up even when you do maintain them.

In any case, the PAL hasn't been maintained since 2000 or so, and maintainer
took it off line. (And it was renamed to "Ada and Software Engineering"
before that.) There are better sources of source code and examples out
there. Even so, several of us have made archive copies of it available -
it's available at Ada Belgium, and it's available in the AdaIC archives at
http://archive.adaic.com/ase/index.html.

> Almost every Ada web site I visited had a link to the
> Public Ada Library, and not a link I tried worked. This really makes
> Ada look dead.

...or it means that you tried one of the many dead Ada websites out there -
AdaHome is ancient, AdaPower hasn't been updated in a couple of years. I
agree that these sites are not necessarily doing Ada any favors, but they
both have lots of good stuff as well as the dead stuff. And it's up the the
owners that have abandoned them to take them offline or update them or
transfer them to someone else. No one else can do it (and many people have
tried to take over AdaHome, but the owner won't let it go).  The number of
dead sites is more an indication of the age of a technology than anything
else...

                   Randy.