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: 103376,2702c1ed8be62863 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Matthew Heaney Subject: Re: What ada 83 compiler is *best* Date: 1998/12/04 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 418675994 Sender: matt@mheaney.ni.net References: NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 09:36:54 PDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-12-04T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: to.reply@read.my.sig (Rick Thorne) writes: > Look, too, at the Usenet news groups. Compare the traffic on > comp.lang.ada to comp.lang.c++.* and comp.lang.java.*. The Ada newgroup > is orders of magnitude smaller. One reason programmers write to a newsgroup is to answer technical questions about the language. If fewer people post to comp.lang.ada, perhaps the reason is that Ada is simpler to learn! > Walk into Computer Literacy or any other book store carrying geek > literature. What's the ratio of C++/Java books to Ada? It's easily > orders of magnitude in difference. One reason programmers read geek literature is to answer technical questions about the language. If there are fewer geek books about Ada, perhaps the reason is that Ada is simpler to learn!